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A Scalar Parameterized Mechanism for Two-Sided Markets

General Economics 2020-03-04 v1 Systems and Control Systems and Control Economics

Abstract

We consider a market in which both suppliers and consumers compete for a product via scalar-parameterized supply offers and demand bids. Scalar-parameterized offers/bids are appealing due to their modeling simplicity and desirable mathematical properties with the most prominent being bounded efficiency loss and price markup under strategic interactions. Our model incorporates production capacity constraints and minimum inelastic demand requirements. Under perfect competition, the market mechanism yields allocations that maximize social welfare. When market participants are price-anticipating, we show that there exists a unique Nash equilibrium, and provide an efficient way to compute the resulting market allocation. Moreover, we explicitly characterize the bounds on the welfare loss and prices observed at the Nash equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.2003.01206,
  title  = {A Scalar Parameterized Mechanism for Two-Sided Markets},
  author = {Mariola Ndrio and Khaled Alshehri and Subhonmesh Bose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.01206},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures

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