The Effect of Bidder Heterogeneity on Combinatorial Conservation Auction Designs

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-157

  Iftekhar, M S ^a   Hailu, A ^b   Lindner, R K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Bidder heterogeneity; Conservation auction; Item price feedbacks; Iterative combinatorial auction

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMERCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; AUCTION DESIGN; BIDDER HETEROGENEITY; COMBINATORIAL AUCTION; COST STRUCTURE; FEED-BACK DESIGNS; MARKET INFORMATION; PRICE INFORMATION;

COSTS;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HETEROGENEITY; LANDOWNER; MARKET SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DETERMINATION;

EID: 84865425521     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9553-7     Document Type: Article

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