ISSN:
1573-6938
Keywords:
experiment
;
call market
;
auction
;
bidding
;
D44
;
D83
;
C92
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
Abstract We propose a simple adaptive learning model to study behavior in the call market. The laboratory environment features buyers and sellers who receive a new random value or cost in each period, so they must learn a strategy that maps these random draws into bids or asks. We focus on buyers' adjustment of the “mark-down” ratio of bids relative to private value and sellers' adjustment of the corresponding “mark-up” ratio of asks relative to private cost. The learning model involves partial adjustment of these ratios towards the ex post optimum each period. The model explains a substantial proportion of the variation in traders' strategies. Parameter estimates indicate strong recency effects and negligible autonomous trend, but strongly asymmetric response to different kinds of ex post error. The asymmetry is only slightly attenuated in “observational learning” from other traders' ex post errors. Simulations show that the model can account for the main systematic deviations from equilibrium predictions observed in this market institution and environment.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01669136
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