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