Vertically differentiated simultaneous Vickrey auctions: Theory and experimental evidence

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1074-1092

  Bapna, Ravi ^a,b   Dellarocas, Chrysanthos ^c   Rice, Sarah ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing auctions; Game theory; Laboratory experiment; Reputation; Simultaneous auctions; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; ARBITRARY NUMBER; BAYES-NASH EQUILIBRIUM; BIDDING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RISK SCORE; RISK TYPES; VERTICAL DIFFERENTIATION; VICKREY AUCTION;

COORDINATION REACTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GAME THEORY; LEAD;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77954883976     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1176     Document Type: Article

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