Bidding fever in eBay auctions of Amazon.com gift certificates

Economics Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-7

  Jones, Matthew T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction fever; Bidding fever; Online auctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051713225     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.05.038     Document Type: Article

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