Operational efficiency of decentralized Internet auction mechanisms

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-125

  Vragov, Roumen ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous double auction; Electronic markets; Internet auction mechanisms; Laboratory experiments; Operational efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS DOUBLE AUCTION; ELECTRONIC MARKET; INTERNET AUCTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES;

COMPUTER TERMINALS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EXPERIMENTS; PROFITABILITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 77949913876     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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