Procurement auctions with entry of bidders

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1243-1257

  Kjerstad, Egil ^a   Vagstad, Steinar ^b  

^a Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Auctions; D44; D82; Entry; Incentive contracts; L51; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034359321     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7187(98)00055-1     Document Type: Article

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