Learning to Trade in an Unbalanced Market

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Florian Hauser

University of Innsbruck

Marco LiCalzi

Dept. Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

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Date Written: September 26, 2011

Abstract

We study the evolution of trading strategies in double auctions as the size of the market gets larger. When the number of buyers and sellers is balanced, Fano et al. (2011) show that the choice of the order-clearing rule (simultaneous or asynchronous) steers the emergence of fundamentally different strategic behavior. We extend their work to unbalanced markets, confirming their main result as well as that allocative inefficiency tends to zero. On the other hand, we discover that convergence to the competitive outcome takes place only when the market is large and that the long side of the market is more effective at improving its disadvantaged terms of trade under asynchronous order-clearing.

Keywords: Trading protocols, Market design, Allocative efficiency, Genetic Programming

JEL Classification: G10, D82, C63

Suggested Citation

Hauser, Florian and LiCalzi, Marco, Learning to Trade in an Unbalanced Market (September 26, 2011). Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Working Paper No. 2/2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2037865 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2037865

Florian Hauser

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