On organizing a sequential auction: Results from a natural experiment by Christie's

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Ginsburgh, Victor ^a   van Ours, Jan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 33845867159     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpl032     Document Type: Article

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