Quality considerations in auctions for television franchises

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-22

  Cabizza, Mariella M ^a   De Fraja, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auctions; TV franchises

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346362973     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6245(97)00029-2     Document Type: Article

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