Controlling Monopoly Power in a Double-Auction Market Experiment
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- Giuseppe Attanasi & Kene Boun My & Andrea Guido & Mathieu Lefebvre, 2021. "Controlling monopoly power in a double‐auction market experiment," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 23(5), pages 1074-1101, October.
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Keywords
Double Auctions; Perfect Competition; Monopoly; Market Imperfection; Spillovers; Classroom Experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- D41 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Perfect Competition
- D42 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Monopoly
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2020-04-06 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-DES-2020-04-06 (Economic Design)
- NEP-EXP-2020-04-06 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-IND-2020-04-06 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-ORE-2020-04-06 (Operations Research)
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