Winner's curse

Winner's curse - phenomenon in common value auctions—where all bidders have the same value for an item but get different private signals about it—where the bidder with the most optimistic evaluation of the asset wins, thus tending to overestimate/overpay. Article “Winner's curse” in English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.28 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Winner's curse”, its content was written by 91 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 110 times in English Wikipedia and cited 155 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22283 in May 2005
• Global: #65810 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #96308 in January 2008
• Global: #155680 in January 2008

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Fluch des Gewinners		47.5721
2	English (en) Winner's curse		24.3968
3	Polish (pl) Klątwa zwycięzcy		21.7631
4	Chinese (zh) 贏家的詛咒		21.5683
5	Persian (fa) نفرین برنده		17.3635
6	French (fr) Malédiction du vainqueur		15.9957
7	Italian (it) Maledizione del vincitore		14.2676
8	Japanese (ja) 勝者の呪い		13.7126
9	Spanish (es) Maldición del ganador		10.219
10	Korean (ko) 승자의 저주		3.1339

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Winner's curse" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Winner's curse		1 009 385
2	German (de) Fluch des Gewinners		58 033
3	French (fr) Malédiction du vainqueur		23 396
4	Spanish (es) Maldición del ganador		20 435
5	Korean (ko) 승자의 저주		19 602
6	Italian (it) Maledizione del vincitore		15 647
7	Dutch (nl) Vloek van het winnende bod		15 488
8	Chinese (zh) 贏家的詛咒		13 660
9	Japanese (ja) 勝者の呪い		12 192
10	Polish (pl) Klątwa zwycięzcy		5 087

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Winner's curse" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Winner's curse		2 680
2	Chinese (zh) 贏家的詛咒		203
3	Japanese (ja) 勝者の呪い		180
4	German (de) Fluch des Gewinners		77
5	Korean (ko) 승자의 저주		63
6	French (fr) Malédiction du vainqueur		52
7	Polish (pl) Klątwa zwycięzcy		36
8	Spanish (es) Maldición del ganador		35
9	Italian (it) Maledizione del vincitore		23
10	Persian (fa) نفرین برنده		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Winner's curse" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Winner's curse		91
2	German (de) Fluch des Gewinners		24
3	French (fr) Malédiction du vainqueur		13
4	Italian (it) Maledizione del vincitore		13
5	Korean (ko) 승자의 저주		8
6	Spanish (es) Maldición del ganador		7
7	Dutch (nl) Vloek van het winnende bod		7
8	Polish (pl) Klątwa zwycięzcy		7
9	Japanese (ja) 勝者の呪い		6
10	Persian (fa) نفرین برنده		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Winner's curse" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fluch des Gewinners		0
2	English (en) Winner's curse		0
3	Spanish (es) Maldición del ganador		0
4	Persian (fa) نفرین برنده		0
5	French (fr) Malédiction du vainqueur		0
6	Italian (it) Maledizione del vincitore		0
7	Japanese (ja) 勝者の呪い		0
8	Korean (ko) 승자의 저주		0
9	Dutch (nl) Vloek van het winnende bod		0
10	Polish (pl) Klątwa zwycięzcy		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Winner's curse" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Winner's curse		110
2	Korean (ko) 승자의 저주		9
3	German (de) Fluch des Gewinners		8
4	Spanish (es) Maldición del ganador		6
5	Japanese (ja) 勝者の呪い		5
6	Chinese (zh) 贏家的詛咒		5
7	French (fr) Malédiction du vainqueur		3
8	Italian (it) Maledizione del vincitore		3
9	Dutch (nl) Vloek van het winnende bod		3
10	Persian (fa) نفرین برنده		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Fluch des Gewinners
en	English Winner's curse
es	Spanish Maldición del ganador
fa	Persian نفرین برنده
fr	French Malédiction du vainqueur
it	Italian Maledizione del vincitore
ja	Japanese 勝者の呪い
ko	Korean 승자의 저주
nl	Dutch Vloek van het winnende bod
pl	Polish Klątwa zwycięzcy
zh	Chinese 贏家的詛咒

Best Rank

English: #96308 01.2008

Global: #155680 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #22283 05.2005

Global: #65810 06.2004

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