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Original Articles

Benford's Law and psychological barriers in certain eBay auctions

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Pages 1005-1008 | Published online: 16 Jun 2009
 

Abstract

Using generalizations of Benford's Law we test for the absence of psychological barriers at various price levels in eBay auctions for professional football tickets. Our empirical results indicate that this hypothesis cannot be rejected.

Acknowledgement

We are grateful to Sophie Hesling for her assistance with data collection.

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