Kirkegaard, René; Overgaard, Per Baltzer - In: RAND Journal of Economics 39 (2008) 3, pp. 770-789
Online auction sites often enable sellers to add a buy-out price. In one-shot auctions, this has been motivated by appeal to impatience or risk aversion. We offer additional justification in a dynamic model, by showing that an early seller has an incentive to use a buy-out price, if a similar...