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Optimal sale across venues and auctions with a buy-now option

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Subir Bose ()
Arup Daripa ()

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Volume (Year): 38 (2009)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 137-168
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Keywords: Optimal auction; eBay auctions; Temporary buy-now option; Permanent buy-now option; Heterogeneous sales venues; Posted price; Price discrimination; D44;

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  1. Paul Milgrom & Ilya Segal, 2002. "Envelope Theorems for Arbitrary Choice Sets," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 70(2), pages 583-601, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Subir Bose & Arup Daripa, 2007. "Optimal Sale: Auctions with a Buy-Now Option," Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance 0702, Birkbeck, School of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics. [Downloadable!]
  8. Holt, Charles A, Jr, 1980. "Competitive Bidding for Contracts under Alternative Auction Procedures," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 88(3), pages 433-45, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Shunda, Nicholas, 2009. "Auctioning with Aspirations: Keep Them Low (Enough)," MPRA Paper 16242, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Svaiter, Benar Fux & Monteiro, Paulo Klinger, 2008. "Optimal auction with a general distribution: virtual valuation without densities," Economics Working Papers (Ensaios Economicos da EPGE) 681, Graduate School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil). [Downloadable!]
  3. George Deltas, 2009. "Introduction to the Symposium," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 1-7, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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