Game theoretical analysis of buy-it-now price auctions

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 557-581

  Yu, Hai ^a,b,c   Dang, Chuangyin ^d   Wang, Shou Yang ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BAIDU INC   (China)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buy it now price auction; Game theory; Permanent; Stackelberg game; Temporary

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749421781     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622006002131     Document Type: Review

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