Dynamic matching, two-sided incomplete information, and participation costs: Existence and convergence to perfect competition

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 155-200

  Satterthwaite, Mark ^a   Shneyerov, Artyom ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Double auctions; Foundations of Walrasian equilibrium; Matching and bargaining; Price formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846667933     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00735.x     Document Type: Article

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