Designing mechanisms for e-commerce security: An example from sealed-bid auctions

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 139-156

  Wang, Wenli ^a   Hidvégi, Zoltán ^a   Whinston, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic mechanisms; Electronic commerce; Information system; Multi unit auction; On line auction; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040075940     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10864415.2001.11044238     Document Type: Article

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