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A Decentralized Market with Common Values Uncertainty: Non-Steady States

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Blouin, Max R
Serrano, Roberto

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We analyse a market where (i) trade proceeds by random and anonymous pairwise meetings with bargaining; (ii) agents are asymmetrically informed about the value of the traded good; and (iii) no new entrants are allowed once the market is open. We show that information revelation and efficiency are never obtained in equilibrium, even as discounting is removed. This holds whether the asymmetry is two-sided or one-sided. In some cases there exist equilibria where a substantial amount goes untraded. This contrasts with the earlier literature, which was based on the steady-state equilibria of a model where agents enter the market every period. Copyright 2001 by The Review of Economic Studies Limited

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Volume (Year): 68 (2001)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 323-46
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  1. Roberto Serrano, 2007. "Bargaining," Working Papers 2007-06, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Ciencias Sociales. [Downloadable!]
  2. Shneyerov, Art & Wong, Adam Chi Leung, 2007. "The Rate of Convergence to Perfect Competition of a Simple Matching and Bargaining Mechanism," Micro Theory Working Papers shneyerov-07-05-01-03-43-, Microeconomics.ca Website, revised 01 May 2007. [Downloadable!]
  3. Diego Moreno & John Wooders, 2001. "The Efficiency Of Decentralized And Centralized Markets For Lemons," Economics Working Papers we014005, Universidad Carlos III, Departamento de Economía. [Downloadable!]
  4. Tanguy, ISAAC, 2006. "Information revelation in markets with pairwise meetings : dynamic case with constant entry flow," Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques Working Paper 2006026, Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques. [Downloadable!]
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