The effect of timing on jump bidding in ascending auctions

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 483-494

  Kwasnica, Anthony M ^a   Katok, Elena ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions; Behavioral issues in operations management; Experimental economics; Jump bidding; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948890432     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00274.x     Document Type: Article

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