Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26057 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2012
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether efficient platforms, leading to market - clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers are competing, we find that traders learn to select non-market clearing platforms with prices systematically above the market-clearing level, provided at least one such platform is introduced by a market designer. This in turn leads market designers to introduce non-market clearing platforms. Hence platform competition induces non-competitive market outcomes.
JEL: 
C72
D4
D83
L1
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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