The Biggest Auction Ever: the Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licenses.
This paper reviews the part played by economists in organizing the British third-generation mobile-phone licence auction that concluded on 27 April 2000. It raised $22 1/2 billion ($34 billion or 2 1/2% of GNP) and was widely described at the time as the biggest auction ever. We discuss the merits o...
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| 格式: | Working paper |
| 語言: | English |
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Nuffield College (University of Oxford)
2001
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