The impact of information diffusion on bidding behavior in secret reserve price auctions

Information Systems Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-368

  Hinz, Oliver ^a   Spann, Martin ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

ebay best offer; Information diffusion; Name your own price; Secret reserve price auctions; Social networks; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMMERCE; COSTS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SALES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

EBAY BEST OFFER; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; NAME-YOUR-OWN-PRICE; RESERVE PRICE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 61349195292     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0190     Document Type: Article

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