期刊
ECONOMETRICA
卷 79, 期 6, 页码 1919-1966出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8126
关键词
Reverse auction; demand schedule competition; double auction; market power; adverse selection; competitiveness; public information; rational expectations; collusion; welfare
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资金
- European Research Council under the European Community [230254]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation at the Public-Private Sector Research Center at IESE [CSD2006-00016, ECO2008-05155]
- Barcelona GSE Research Network
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- European Research Council (ERC) [230254] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The cost of each seller is random, with common and private value components, and the seller receives a private signal about it. A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized: The equilibrium is privately revealing and the incentives to rely on private signals are preserved. Supply functions are steeper with higher correlation among the cost parameters. For high (positive) correlation, supply functions are downward sloping, price is above the Cournot level, and as we approach the common value case, price tends to the collusive level. As correlation becomes maximally negative, we approach the competitive outcome. With positive correlation, private information coupled with strategic behavior induces additional distortionary market power above full information levels. Efficiency can be restored with appropriate subsidy schemes or with a precise enough public signal about the common value component. As the market grows large with the number of sellers, the equilibrium becomes price-taking, bid shading is on the order of 1/n, and the order of magnitude of welfare losses is 1/n2. The results extend to inelastic demand, demand uncertainty, and demand schedule competition. A range of applications in product and financial markets is presented.
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