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Disclosure services and welfare gains in matching markets for indivisible assets.
- Source :
- Review of Economic Design; Sep2024, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p485-532, 48p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We present a competitive matching model in which indivisible assets are reallocated among many traders. The model has three features: (i) traders are heterogeneous in their prospects as buyers, sellers, and also in their stand-alone values with endowed assets, (ii) buyers do not know true values of assets sold, (iii) sellers can disclose values of their assets by paying fees. Despite its complexity, the model admits closed-form solutions. Two main results emerge. First, if full Disclosure is facilitated by a monopolist, it captures a large fraction of the welfare gains. Second, adding the option of minimum disclosure, when combined with a cap regulation on price-dependent fees for full disclosure, significantly weakens the monopolist's power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14344742
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Review of Economic Design
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179324958
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-024-00352-2