Buy it now: A hybrid market institution
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Keywords
Market institutions; posted prices; auctions; e-commerce;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
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