Designing experimental auctions for marketing research: The effect of values, distributions, and mechanisms on incentives for truthful bidding

Review of Marketing Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lusk, Jayson L ^a   Alexander, Corinne ^b   Rousu, Matthew C ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction; Payoff function; Preference elicitation; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948948301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15465616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1546-5616.1059     Document Type: Review

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