Charitable motives and bidding in charity auctions

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 399-413

  Leszczyc, Peter T L Popkowski ^a   Rothkopf, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charitable motives; Charity auctions; Controlled field experiments

Indexed keywords

AUCTION DESIGN; CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTERNET AUCTIONS; NET REVENUE; NOVEL DESIGN; SELLING PRICES;

COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; PROFITABILITY;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77949555669     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1120     Document Type: Article

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