Low Reserve Prices in Auctions
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- Audrey Hu & Steven A Matthews & Liang Zou, 2019. "Low Reserve Prices in Auctions," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(622), pages 2563-2580.
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Keywords
reserve price; risk aversion; interdependent values; second-price auction;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DES-2018-09-03 (Economic Design)
- NEP-GTH-2018-09-03 (Game Theory)
- NEP-MIC-2018-09-03 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2018-09-03 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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