Bid distributions of competing agents in simple models of auctions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 294, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 447-464

  D'Hulst, R ^a   Rodgers, G J ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive competition; Auction; Market structure

Indexed keywords

MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ADAPTIVE COMPETITION; AUCTIONS; BID DISTRIBUTION;

COMPETITION;

EID: 0035873611     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00128-5     Document Type: Article

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