Convergence of Double Auctions to Pareto Optimal Allocations in the Edgeworth Box

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Dhananjay (Dan) K. Gode

New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting

Stephen Spear

Carnegie Mellon University - Financial Economics

Shyam Sunder

Yale University - School of Management; Yale University - Cowles Foundation

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Date Written: May 2004

Abstract

Double auctions with profit-motivated human traders as well as "zero-intelligence" programmed traders have previously been shown to converge to Pareto optimal allocations in partial equilibrium settings. We show that these results remain robust in two-good general equilibrium settings and elucidate how market structure, not optimization by traders, guides efficient resource allocation.

Keywords: Pareto optimal allocations, Edgeworth Box, Double auction, Zero-intelligence traders

Suggested Citation

Gode, Dhananjay (Dan) K. and Spear, Stephen E. and Sunder, Shyam, Convergence of Double Auctions to Pareto Optimal Allocations in the Edgeworth Box (May 2004). NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27486, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1280707

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