Waiting for News in the Market for Lemons

Econometrica

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1433-1504

  Daley, Brendan ^a   Green, Brett ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Dynamic games; Information economics; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864297840     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9278     Document Type: Article

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