Buy-out prices in auctions: Seller competition and multi-unit demands

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 770-789

  Kirkegaard, René ^a   Overgaard, Per Baltzer ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 54049093669     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2008.00038.x     Document Type: Article

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