Rationality, irrationality and escalating behavior in online auctions
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چکیده
Filippo Radicchi,1 Andrea Baronchelli,2 and Luís A. N. Amaral1, 3, 4 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord B4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1105.0469 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011