Market Culture: How Rules Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance

Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2009, vol. 1, issue 2, 199-219

Abstract: Many markets encounter difficulty maintaining a thick marketplace because they experience transactions made at dispersed times. To address such problems, many markets try to establish norms concerning when offers can be made, accepted, and rejected. Examining such markets suggests it is difficult to establish a thick market at an efficient time if firms can make exploding offers, and workers cannot renege on early commitments. Laboratory experiments allow us to isolate the effects of exploding offers and binding acceptances. In a simple experiment, we find inefficient early contracting when firms can make exploding offers and applicants' acceptances are binding. (JEL C91, D40, D81)

JEL-codes: C91 D40 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mic.1.2.199
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