Lottery or waiting-line auction?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 1313-1334

  Taylor, Grant A ^a   Tsui, Kevin K K ^b   Zhu, Lijing ^c,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Allocation mechanisms; Lottery; Rent dissipation; Social surplus; Waiting line auction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038406200     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00196-7     Document Type: Article

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