Revenue Effects and Information Processing in English Common Value Auctions

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 442-460

  Levin, Dan ^a   Kagel, John H ^b   Richard, Jean Francois ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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