Estimating first-price auctions with an unknown number of bidders: A misclassification approach

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 328-341

  An, Yonghong ^a   Hu, Yingyao ^a   Shum, Matthew ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction models; Misclassification; Nonparametric identification

Indexed keywords

AUCTION MODEL; DATA SETS; MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MONTE CARLO; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; POTENTIAL BIDDERS; PRICE AUCTION; PROCUREMENT AUCTION; PROFIT MARGIN; UNOBSERVABILITY;

PROFITABILITY;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77953699084     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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