Rates of information aggregation in common value auctions

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-40

  Hong, Han ^a   Shum, Matthew ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence rates; Information aggregation; Large auctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342594028     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0531(03)00224-2     Document Type: Article

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