Why you overpaid at that online auction
The Indicator from Planet Money
NPR
4.7 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
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Summary
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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