Buyer Brokerage: Incentive and Efficiency Implications

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 259-277

  Yavaç, Abdullah ^a   Colwell, Peter ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Buyer brokerage; Efficiency; Externalities; Incentives; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033418637     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007733916238     Document Type: Article

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