How eBay Sellers set “Buy-it-now†prices - Bringing The Field Into the Lab
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Keywords
online auctions; experiments; buyout prices;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2007-01-14 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2007-01-14 (Game Theory)
- NEP-MKT-2007-01-14 (Marketing)
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