The loser's curse and information aggregation in common value auctions

Econometrica

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1247-1281

  Pesendorfer, Wolfgang ^a   Swinkels, Jeroen M ^a  

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Common value auctions; Information aggregation

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EID: 0000369606     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2171736     Document Type: Article

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