Buy-price English auction

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-56

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions; Buy price; Revenue equivalence; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744992487     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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