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Strategic market games with interim price information

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Is it possible to incorporate the rational expectations concept of interim price information from competitive equilibrium models into simultaneous move games? In addressing consistency and measurability issues that arise from the "chicken-egg" problem of rational expectations, strategic market games with interim price information do exactly that. In these non-Bayesian games informed traders simultaneously submit their linear demand-schedules to a Walrasian auctioneer after they have observed their private signals and their interim price information. I show that a specific class of Bayesian Nash equilibria from Bayesian market games (Kyle 1989; Vives 2011) carries over to 'become' Nash equilibria of strategic market games with interim price information. I also show that conditioning on interim price information may give rise to Nash equilibria that support price-collusion between informed traders against a liquidity trader (e.g., the government in a procurement situation).

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  • Alexander Zimper, 2025. "Strategic market games with interim price information," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, vol. 0.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:ersawp:v::y:2025:i::id:205
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