We study a decentralized trading model as in Peters (1984a), where heterogeneous market participants face a trade-off between price and trade probability. We present a novel proof of existence of a unique demand vector in Nash equilibrium, based on a recursive approach that exploits the...

The lack of complete information of the government has been considered as a barrier to the optimal regulation, as it is well-known in price regulations literature. However, it is not true for the entry regulation: This paper shows that the performance of the entry regulation under incomplete...

The literature on excess entry shows that the free-entry equilibrium number of firms may be greater than is socially optimal and proposes government entry regulation as a remedy. This article tries to show that such a policy recommendation is misleading. A two-period, three-person entry game...