Reserve prices as reference points - Evidence from auctions for football players at Hattrick.org

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-240

  Trautmann, Stefan T ^a   Traxler, Christian ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auctions; Online games; Reference dependence; Reserve prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949490702     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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