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private information. Agents engage in costly search and meet randomly. The terms of trade are determined through bilateral ….e., as discounting and the fixed cost of search become small, all equilibria of the market game converge to perfectly …
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We study the steady state of a market with incoming cohorts of buyers and sellers who are matched pairwise and bargain under private information. We first consider generalized random-proposer take-it-or-leave-it offer games (GRP TIOLI games). This class of games includes a simple random-proposer...
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Weitzman's search model requires that, conditional on stopping, the agent only takes boxes which have already been … common in the search and information acquisition literature, boxes are inspected following the same order as inWeitzman …
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In a two-sided search market agents are paired to bargain over a unit surplus. The matching market serves as an …
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search inefficiencies are more significant in electronic trade. It therefore remains an open issue whether Internet trade can …
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We experimentally explore individual and interactive decision making ina sequential search task and test whether …)adequately explain the observed search behavior. Subjects can, at acost, employ screening and selection methods facilitating their search … experimentation. Contrary to popular theoriesof sequential search, aspiration levels are set below the maximum valueof all previously …
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This paper reports two laboratory studies designed to study the impact of public informationabout past departure rates on congestion levels and travel costs. Our experimental design isbased on a discrete version of Arnott, de Palma, and Lindsey’s (1990) bottleneck model wheresubjects have to...
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Within the setting of two simple two-person coordinationgames the formation of subjective strategies is observed experimentally.Though the structure of the game is unknown playersuse their actions in order to coordinate on a specific equilibrium.Strategies enable them to interpret the...
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Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
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This paper analyzes the time-varying credibility of the Fed's inflation target in an empirical macro model with asymmetric information, where the public has to learn about the actual inflation target from the Fed's interest rate policy. To capture the evolving communication strategy of the Fed,...
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