Horstmann, Ignatius J; LaCasse, Chantale - In: American Economic Review 87 (1997) 4, pp. 663-84
This paper presents an auction model in which the seller may choose not to sell in spite of receiving a bid above the announced reserve price. Such behavior is seen frequently in auctions, yet would be suboptimal within most existing models. Here, the seller uses resale to signal information...