TY  - RPRT
ID  - publications15288
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/25836
A1  - Breton, Régis
A1  - Gobillard, Bertrand
Y1  - 2011/08//
N2  - We propose an approach to restricting the set of equilibria in a market game and use
it to assess the robustness of the price dispersion results obtained by Koutsougeras
[2003, J. Econ. Theory 108, 169–175] in the multiple trading posts setup. More
precisely, we perturb the initial game by the introduction of transaction costs and
our main results are the following. (i) No equilibrium with price dispersion of
the game with costless transactions can be approached by equilibria with positive
transaction costs as costs get arbitrarily small. (ii) When this type of perturbation
is considered the set of equilibrium outcomes is not affected by the number of
trading posts. In addition, the analysis hints at conditions required for non-zero
transaction costs to serve as a source of price dispersion in this class of exchange
economies.
PB  - TSE Working Paper
T3  - TSE Working Paper
KW  - Strategic market games
KW  - law of one price
KW  - perturbed games
KW  - equilibrium refinement
M1  - working_paper
TI  - Robustness of equilibrium price dispersion in finite market games
AV  - public
ER  -