The relevance of a choice of auction format in a competitive environment

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 961-981

  Jackson, Matthew O ^a   Kremer, Ilan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; PRICE DETERMINATION;

EID: 33749052999     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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