Efficiency and information transmission in bilateral trading

Bibliographic Details
Title: Efficiency and information transmission in bilateral trading
Authors: Robert Shimer, Iván Werning
Source: Review of Economic Dynamics. 33:154-176
Publication Status: Preprint
Publisher Information: Elsevier BV, 2019.
Publication Year: 2019
Subject Terms: jel:G14, jel:D82, 0502 economics and business, 05 social sciences, jel:D83
Description: We study pairwise trading mechanisms in the presence of one-sided or two-sided private information and two-sided limited commitment, whereby either trader can walk away from a proposed trade when he learns the trading price. We show that when one trader's information is relevant for the other trader's value of the asset, optimal trading arrangements may necessarily conceal the traders' information. While limited commitment itself may not be costly, it shapes how prices transmit information.
Document Type: Article
Language: English
ISSN: 1094-2025
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2019.02.004
Access URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21495.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1094202518303132
https://www.nber.org/papers/w21495
http://www.nber.org/papers/w21495
https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:issued:18-279
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/33061/efficiency.pdf
https://ideas.repec.org/a/red/issued/18-279.html
Rights: Elsevier TDM
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....506464431e96d212b6a0481527a1216b
Database: OpenAIRE
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ISSN:10942025
DOI:10.1016/j.red.2019.02.004