Joint bidding in the Name-Your-Own-Price channel: A strategic analysis

Management Science

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1685-1699

  Amaldoss, Wilfred ^a   Jain, Sanjay ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bidding; experimental economics; Internet; pricing

Indexed keywords

BIDDING; DEMAND UNCERTAINTIES; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS; FIELD DATUM; LABORATORY STUDIES; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MULTIPLE ITEMS; NAME YOUR OWN PRICES; PRICING; STRATEGIC ANALYSIS; SUPPLY UNCERTAINTIES;

COMPETITION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INTERNET; SALES;

COSTS;

EID: 61849093762     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0888     Document Type: Article

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