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Limelight on Dark Markets: Theory and Experimental Study of Liquidity and Information

Berentsen, Aleksander and McBride, Michael and Rocheteau, Guillaume. (2017) Limelight on Dark Markets: Theory and Experimental Study of Liquidity and Information. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 75. pp. 70-90.

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Abstract

We investigate how informational frictions affect trading in decentralized markets in theory and in a laboratory setting. Subjects, matched pairwise at random, trade divisible commodities that have different private values for a divisible asset with a common value (interpreted as money). We compare a bargaining game with complete information with a bargaining game where agents can produce fraudulent assets at some cost and are privately informed about the quality of their assets. The threat of fraud strongly reduces the subjects’ ability to exploit the gains from trade, it reduces significantly both the size of the trade and the acceptability of the asset, but only a small fraction of all assets are actually fraudulent.
Faculties and Departments:06 Faculty of Business and Economics > Departement Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Professuren Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Wirtschaftstheorie (Berentsen)
UniBasel Contributors:Berentsen, Aleksander
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0165-1889
e-ISSN:1879-1743
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:05 May 2017 08:15

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