Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Trading Mechanism Selection with
Directed Search when Buyers are Risk Averse
Selcuk, Cemil
Cardiff University
2011
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36224/
MPRA Paper No. 36224, posted 27 Jan 2012 19:05 UTC
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