Price Discovery in Private Negotiation Trading with Forward and Spot Deliveries

Dale J. Menkhaus, Owen R. Phillips, Allison F. M. Johnston and Alla V. Yakunina

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2003, vol. 25, issue 1, 89-107

Abstract: Advance production in spot markets increases seller costs because inventories must be held. This cost does not exist in production-to-demand (or forward) markets, for which production follows trading, and sales exactly match quantities produced. Data from laboratory-computerized markets that trade through private negotiation are analyzed. For the experimental supply and demand conditions, price convergence patterns show spot prices 10.8% lower and the number of trades 12.4% fewer than forward outcomes. The adverse impact of advance production and private negotiation on seller earnings is emphasized when earnings are compared with those from double auction trading. Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2003
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