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Competing mechanisms

Michael Peters

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2014, vol. 47, issue 2, 373-397

Abstract: The recent literature on competing mechanisms has devoted a lot of effort at understanding a very complex and abstract issue. In particular, an agent's type in a competitive environment is hard to conceptualize because it depends on information the agent has about what is going on in the rest of the market. This paper explains why this is such an important practical problem and illustrates how the literature has “solved” it. Concurrence par les mécanismes. La littérature spécialisée récente sur la concurrence par les mécanismes s'est attachée à comprendre un ensemble de problèmes complexes et abstraits. En particulier, un type d'agent dans un environnement concurrentiel est difficile à conceptualiser parce que cela dépend de l'information que l'agent a sur ce qui se passe dans le reste du marché. Ce texte explique pourquoi c'est un problème pratique tellement important et montre comment la littérature spécialisée l'a “résolu”.

Date: 2014
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