Auction price anomalies: Evidence from wool auctions in Australia

Economic Record

Volumn 80, Issue 250, 2004, Pages 271-288

  Jones, Chris ^a   Menezes, Flavio ^a   Vella, Francis ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DYNAMICS; WOOL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4544361655     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2004.00188.x     Document Type: Article

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