Decentralized trading with private information

Mikhail Golosov, Guido Lorenzoni, Aleh Tsyvinski

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Abstract

The paper studies how asset prices are determined in a decentralized market with asymmetric information about asset values. We consider an economy in which a large number of agents trade two assets in bilateral meetings. A fraction of the agents has private information about the asset values. We show that, over time, uninformed agents can elicit information from their trading partners by making small offers. This form of experimentation allows the uninformed agents to acquire information as long as there are potential gains from trade in the economy. As a consequence, the economy converges to a Pareto efficient allocation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1055-1091
Number of pages37
JournalEconometrica
Volume82
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2014

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Economics and Econometrics

Keywords

  • Bilateral trading
  • Information revelation
  • Over-the-counter markets

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