Efficient Competition Through Cheap Talk: The Case of Competing Auctions

Econometrica

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1849-1875

  Kim, Kyungmin ^a   Kircher, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cheap talk; Competing auctions; Directed search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943396121     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA12103     Document Type: Article

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