Participation fees vs. reserve prices in auctions with asymmetric or colluding buyers

Economics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 328-332

  Kirkegaard, René ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collusion; Participation fees; Reserve prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744521033     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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