de Haan, Laurens; Vries, Casper G. de; Zhou, Chen - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 4, pp. 1726-1736
Internet auctions attract numerous agents, but only a few become active bidders. Under the Independent Private Values Paradigm the valuations of the active bidders form a specific record sequence. This record sequence implies that if the number n of potential bidders is large, the number of...