An empirical investigation of the auction buyer's choice to buy out or bid: Cry of regret or laugh of satisfaction?

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 783-795

  Tan, Chuan Hoo ^a   Yang, Xue ^a   Teo, Hock Hai ^a   Lin, Grace ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bidder behavior; Buyout option; Online auction; Price contrast

Indexed keywords

BIDDER BEHAVIOR; BIDDING PROCESS; BIDDING STRATEGY; BUYOUT OPTION; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOSS AVERSION; ONLINE AUCTIONS; PRICE CONTRAST; STARTING PRICE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SALES;

COSTS;

EID: 84869857180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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