Selling goods of unknown quality: forward versus spot auctions

DOI10.1007/S10058-011-0110-6MaRDI QIDQ645063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Isa E. Hafalir, Hadi Yektaş

Publication date 8 November 2011

Published in Review of Economic Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/801061/1091.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

insuranceforward auctionsforward tradingspot auctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Derivative securities (option pricing, hedging, etc.) (91G20) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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• A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding
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