The declining price anomaly in Dutch Dutch Rose auctions

American Economic Review

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1055-1062

  Van Den Berg, Gerard J ^a   Van Ours, Jan C ^b   Pradhan, Menno P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0039191481     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.4.1055     Document Type: Article

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