The Cocaine Auction Protocol: On The Power Of Anonymous Broadcast[pdf]
An amazing paper. Discusses a protocol based method for allowing anonymous auctions to occur without the benefit of an auctioneer. There are several ingenious solutions to tricky problems contained herein.
For Google Investors, a Crash Course in the Mathematics of Bidding
An interesting survey of available auction types and some of the trade-offs involved with each. Covers: English, Dutch, Sealed-Bid First-Price, Vickrey, Uniform-Price, Vickrey-Clarke-Groves and Ausubel style auctions. Fascinating.
Working Through the BookLog 