Online auctions efficiency: A survey of ebay auctions

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 925-933

  Wenyan, Hu ^a   Bolivar, Alvaro ^a  

^a EBAY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction efficiency; Auction theory; Online auctions

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUCTION EFFICIENCY; AUCTION THEORY; BIDDING STRATEGIES; CASE STUDIES; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTS; CONSUMER SURPLUSES; E COMMERCES; ONLINE AUCTIONS; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; ONLINE FORMATS; ONLINE MARKETPLACES; ONLINE TRANSACTIONS; PRICE AUCTIONS; SOCIAL WELFARES; TRANSACTION DATUMS; TRANSACTION MECHANISMS; TRUE VALUES;

COMMERCE;

EID: 57349169200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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