Auction fever: Rising revenue in second-price auction formats

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 92, Issue , 2015, Pages 206-227

  Ehrhart, Karl Martin ^a   Ott, Marion ^a,c   Abele, Susanne ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auction fever; Experiment; Private uncertain values; Pseudo endowment effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937136893     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2015.06.006     Document Type: Article

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