Commodity durability, trader specialization, and market performance.

ABSTRACT: The original double auction studies of supply and demand markets established their strong efficiency and equilibrium convergence behavior using economically unsophisticated and untrained subjects. The results were unexpected because all individual costs and values were private and dependent entirely on the market trading process to aggregate the dispersed information into socially desirable outcomes. The exchange environment, however, corresponded to that of perishable, and not re-traded goods in which participants were specialized as buyers or sellers. We report experiments in repeated single-period markets where tradability, and buyer-seller role specialization, is varied by imposing or relaxing a restriction on re-trade within each period. In re-trade markets scope is given to speculati

SUBMITTER: Dickhaut J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3277129 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature