Costs of implementation: Bargaining costs versus allocative efficiency

A mechanism with low direct cost of use may be preferred to alternatives implementing more efficient allocations. We show this experimentally by giving pairs of subjects the option to agree on a single average price for a sequence of trades—in effect pooling several small bargains into a larger one....

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Main Authors: Maciejovsky, Boris, Wernerfelt, Birger
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107903
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0009-6236