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Why you overpaid at that online auction

Category: Business
Duration: 00:08:59
Publish Date: 2025-11-17 08:00:00
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Ever put in the winning bid for something on an auction site only to realize you significantly overpaid? Yeah, there’s a phrase for that. On today’s show: the winner’s curse.

Richard Thaler’s new book with Alex O. Imas is The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now.

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