What Price Coordination? The Efficiency-enhancing Effect of Auctioning the Right to Play.

A model is proposed to explain the results of recent experiments in which subjects repeatedly played a coordination game, with the right to play auctioned each period in a larger group. Subjects bid the market-clearing price to a level recoverable only in the efficient equilibrium and then converged...

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Main Authors: Crawford, V, Broseta, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association 1998