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The unmediated call auction is a useful trading mechanism to aggregate dispersedinformation. Its ability to incorporate … auction game where both auction prices and limit prices of uninformed tradersre°ect potential insider information. The … predictions of the model are tested inthe laboratory. While an insider improves the call auction outcomes in terms ofincreasing …
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Theoretically and experimentally, we generalize the analysis of acquiringa company (Samuelson and Bazerman 1985) by allowing for competition ofboth, buyers and sellers. Naivety of both is related to the idea that higherprices exclude worse qualities. While competition of naive buyers...
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A vast literature shows that individuals frequently violate normative principles in reasoning. In evaluatingthe relevance of these findings for psychology, economics, and related disciplines, it is natural to askwhether reasoning errors reflect random aberrations or systematic biases. One...
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The price mecanism is the primary means of information transferin decentralized economic systems. High prices indicate highdemand, whereas low prices indicate low demand. Thus prices arethe signals for accelerating or slowing production. However, usingsequential, multi-unit auctions, we show...
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The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets oneight markets in a computerized … continuous double auction, indicate that objectivelyirrelevant information influences trading behavior. Moreover, positively and …
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This paper provides an overview on the simulations andexperiments we have done in order to better understandhuman-agent interaction in a market environment. We findthat the introduction of software agents does not necessarilyinduce a more efficient market. More surprisingly,information on the...
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A vast literature shows that individuals frequently fail to identify the normative solutionsin logical reasoning tasks. Much attention has been devoted to the study ofthese deviations at the individual level; less effort was exerted to investigate whetherinstitutional settings might facilitate...
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A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as ebay, which employ a second price auction … employ similar auction rules, but use an ending rule that automatically extends the auction if necessary after the scheduled … close until ten minutes have passed without a bid. This paper reports an experiment that allows us to examine the effect of …
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arbitrage seekingstrategy are introduced in a double auction market experiment with humansubjects in the laboratory. As a …
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Two auction mechanisms are studied in which players compete with one another for an exogenously determined prize by … lowest (highest) bid auction game, the winner of the prize is the player who submits the lowest (highest) bid provided that …-negative cost of entry, and an option to stay out of the auction if the entry cost is deemed too high, we propose an algorithm for …
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