Identification and Inference in Ascending Auctions With Correlated Private Values

Econometrica

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 489-534

  Aradillas López, Andrés ^a   Gandhi, Amit ^a   Quint, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascending auction; Correlated values; Nonparametric identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875487059     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9431     Document Type: Article

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