Individuals and teams in auctions

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 380-394

  Sutter, Matthias ^a   Kocher, Martin G ^b   Strauß, Sabine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAME THEORY; PROFITABILITY; VALUATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 64049115532     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpn037     Document Type: Article

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