The movement of capital between countries, either as outflows of domestically owned capital to foreign countries or inflows of foreign-owned capital into a country.
An auction where the auctioneer starts with a low price and keeps taking higher bids until there are no more bids, selling the item to the highest bidder.
A statistical test for heteroscedasticity in regression models, checking if the size of random errors increases proportionally to changes in exogenous variables.