Smit, Han T.J.; Berg, Ward A. van den; Maeseneire, Wouter De - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
option on a bundle of resources. Competing potential buyers may sequentially perform due diligence and incur costs (option …). The first player’s bid provides a signal on its own and rivals’ target value, thereby affecting potential bidders’ option … value. The level of information costs and the option value, affected by heterogeneity between bidders (correlation), their …