Convergence to Efficiency in a Simple Market with Incomplete Information
不完全信息简单市场向效率的收敛
A model with m buyers and m sellers is considered in which price is set to equate revealed demand and supply. In a Bayesian Nash equilibrium, each trader acts not as a price-taker but instead misrepresents his true demand/supply to influence price in his favor. This causes inefficiency. The authors show that, in any equilibrium, the amount by which a trader misreports is O(1/m) and the corresponding inefficiency is O(1/m[squared]). The indeterminacy and the inefficiency that…