When snipers become predators: Can mechanism design save online auctions?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 152-158

  Bapna, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 9744269518     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/953460.953495     Document Type: Article

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