Impulse balance equilibrium and feedback in first price auctions

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 155-170

  Ockenfels, Axel ^a   Selten, Reinhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auctions; Bounded rationality; Ex post rationality; Experiments; Feedback; Learning; Overbidding; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644399262     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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