The value of victory: Social origins of the winner's curse in common value auctions

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 483-492

  Van Den Bos, Wouter ^f   Li, Jian ^b   Lau, Tatiana ^a   Maskin, Eric ^c   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,d   Montague, P Read ^b   Mcclure, Samuel M ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auctions; Bounded rationality; Winner's curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350151107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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