Cross and double cross: Comparative statics in first price and all pay auctions

B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Hopkins, Ed ^a   Kornienko, Tatiana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auctions; Comparative statics; Games of incomplete information; Likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649024359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1704.1366     Document Type: Article

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