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Principles of Continuous Price Determination In An Experimental Environment With Flows Of Random Arrivals And Departures
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- Plott, Charles R.
- Alton, Michael R.
Abstract
A new experimental market environment is developed. Continuously arriving incentives replace the traditional period structure. The issue posed is whether classical principles of market behavior apply when the environment is constantly changing. Three broad results emerge. (1) Natural "flow" generalizations of the laws of demand and supply exist and dictate much of the market behavior. (2) Two different classes of laws operate: the "temporal equilibrium", which is based on the parameters that exist in the market at a moment and the "flow competitive equilibrium," which reflects the probabilistic structure of the parameters. (3) The markets exhibit extraordinarily high levels of efficiency.
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The authors wish to express their appreciation for the help of Roger Sherman, Kim Border, Peter Bossaerts, David Grether, and the participants in the Caltech seminar on experimental economics. The financial support of the Caltech Laboratory of Experimental Economics and Political Science and Caltech's Lee Center for Advanced Networking is gratefully acknowledged.Attached Files
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- 44364
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140317-145139816
- Laboratory of Experimental Economics and Political Science
- Lee Center for Advanced Networking, Caltech
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2014-03-27Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Social Science Working Papers
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- Social Science working Paper
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- 1276