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This study quantifies the efficiency of a real-world bargaining game with two-sided incomplete information. Myerson and …, but little is known about how well real-world bargaining performs relative to the frontier. The setting is wholesale used …-auto auctions, an $80 billion industry where buyers and sellers participate in alternating-offer bargaining when the auction price …
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The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid … theory that has been useful for thinking about online advertising markets, retail and business-to-business e … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research. …
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financial index investment in agricultural futures markets using non-public data from the Large Trader Reporting System (LTRS … another. The null hypothesis of no impact of aggregate CIT positions on daily returns is rejected in only 3 of the 12 markets … in a data-defined roll period is rejected in 5 of the 12 markets and estimated cumulative impacts are negative in all 12 …
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The last decade brought substantial increased participation in commodity markets by index funds that maintain long …
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School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood schools. This paper demonstrates how the precedence order, i.e. the order in which different types of seats are filled by applicants, has quantitative effects on distributional...
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bargaining model for predicting and estimating the division of surplus in applied analysis of bilateral oligopoly. This paper …
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Background. In Spain's "MIR" system of allocating residency training positions, medical school graduates are ranked according to their performance on a national exam and then sequentially choose from the remaining available training slots. We studied how changes in the MIR system might address...
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This paper studies costly network formation in the context of risk sharing. Neighboring agents negotiate agreements as in Stole and Zwiebel (1996), which results in the social surplus being allocated according to the Myerson value. We uncover two types of inefficiency: overinvestment in social...
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Centralized and coordinated school assignment systems are a growing part of recent education reforms. This paper estimates school demand using rank order lists submitted in New York City's high school assignment system launched in Fall 2003 to study the effects of coordinating admissions in a...
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We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market …
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