The value of victory

Auctions, normally considered as devices facilitating trade, also provide a way to probe mechanisms governing one's valuation of some good or action. One of the most intriguing phenomena in auction behavior is the winner's curse --- the strong tendency of participants to bid more than rati...

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Main Authors: Wouter van den Bos, Jian Li, Tatiana Lau, Eric Maskin, Jonathan D. Cohen, P. Read Montague, Samuel M. McClure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2008-10-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/8826/jdm8826.pdf