An experimental comparison of linear and nonlinear price combinatorial auctions

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-368

  Scheffel, Tobias ^a   Pikovsky, Alexander ^a   Bichler, Martin ^a   Guler, Kemal ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Electronic markets and auctions; Laboratory experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960709237     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0267     Document Type: Article

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