Market sentiments, winner's curse and bidding outcome in land auctions

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-274

  Tse, Maurice K S ^a   Pretorius, Frederik I H ^a   Chau, K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Auction; Bidding outcome; Market sentiments; Winner's curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953108810     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-009-9211-1     Document Type: Article

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