Price information and bidding behavior in repeated second-price auctions

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 942-949

  List, John A ^a   Shogren, Jason F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Auctions; Bidding; Experimental markets; Price; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000992668     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244336     Document Type: Article

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