Revealing information in auctions: The allocation effect

Economic Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 125-135

  Board, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auctions; Bundling; Information revelation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249163533     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0177-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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