Call market book information and efficiency

被引:27
作者
Arifovic, Jasmina
Ledyard, John
机构
[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Econ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[2] CALTECH, Div Humanities & Social Sci, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
computer testbeds; call markets; learning; experiments with human subjects; closed book; market design;
D O I
10.1016/j.jedc.2007.01.006
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
What are the consequences of making bids and offers in the book available to traders in a call. market? This is a problem in market design. We employ a computational mechanism design methodology to attack this problem and find that allocative efficiencies are higher in a closed book design. We validate our computational approach by running a series of tests with human subjects in exactly the same environments. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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页码:1971 / 2000
页数:30
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