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| Title: | | Competitive equilibria in decentralized matching with incomplete information  |
| Authors: | | Atakan, Alp E. |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper // Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science 1437 |
| Abstract: | | This paper shows that all perfect Bayesian equilibria of a dynamic matching game with two-sided incomplete information of independent private values variety converge to competitive equilibria. Buyers purchase a bundle of heterogeneous, indivisible goods and sellers own one unit of an indivisible good. Buyer preferences and endowments as well as seller costs are private information. Agents engage in costly search and meet randomly. The terms of trade are determined through bilateral bargaining between buyers and sellers. The paper considers a market in steady state. It is shown that as frictions disappear, i.e., as discounting and the fixed cost of search become small, all equilibria of the market game converge to perfectly competitive equilibria. |
| Subjects: | | Matching and bargaining search foundations for perfect competition two-sided incomplete information |
| JEL: | | C73 C78 D83 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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