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Markets Versus Negotiations: An Experimental Investigation

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Tamar Kugler ()
Zvika Neeman ()
Nir Vulkan ()

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We consider the consequences of competition between two types of experimental exchange mechanisms, a “decentralized bargaining” market, and a “centralized” market. The experiment demonstrates that decentralized bargaining is subject to a process of unraveling in which relatively weak traders (buyers with high willingness to pay and sellers with low costs) continuously find trading in the centralized market more attractive until almost no opportunities for mutually beneficial trade remain outside the centralized marketplace.

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Paper provided by Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University, Jerusalem in its series Discussion Paper Series with number dp319.

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Date of creation: Jun 2003
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Publication status: Published in Economic Behavior, 2006, vol. 56, pp. 121-134.
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Keywords: centralized markets; decentralized markets; decentralized bargaining; market design; market formation;

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C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
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