The Impact of the Irrelevant: Temporary Buy-Options and Bidding Behavior in Auctions

With a laboratory experiment, we study the impact of buy-options and the corresponding buy-price on revenues and bidding behavior in (online) proxy-auctions with independent private valuations. We show that temporary buy-options may reduce revenues for two reasons: At low buy-prices, the application...

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Principais autores: Ronald Peeters, Martin Strobel, Dries Vermeulen, Markus Walzl
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
coleção:Games
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Acesso em linha:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/7/1/8