Costs of implementation: Bargaining costs versus allocative efficiency

A mechanism with low direct cost of use may be preferred to alternatives implementing more efficient allocations. We show this experimentally by giving pairs of subjects the option to agree on a single average price for a sequence of trades-in effect pooling several small bargains into a larger one....

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Main Authors: Maciejovsky, Boris (Contributor), Wernerfelt, Birger (Contributor)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2017-04-06T16:14:20Z.
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