Title
Equilibria Strategies for Selecting Sellers and Satisfying Buyers
Abstract
Dynamism of trade activity inevitably results in situations where sellers face local supply shortages. In such cases, sellers need to decide which buyer purchase requests to satisfy. Commonly, sellers satisfy purchase requests based on their arrival order, i.e., First In is First Served (FIFS). In electronic trade, sellers may follow strategies different from FIFS without the buyers being able to detect this difference. Buyers, in response to the sellers' strategic behavior, may themselves adopt strategies that will maximize their utility. Previous research has suggested strategies to be used by electronic seller-agents and buyer-agents. Yet, that research examined markets in which buyers are willing to accept partial satisfaction of their request and sellers' stocks are all the same. A simulation tool was developed under such conditions. This paper utilizes the simulation tool to explore equilibria in more realistic markets, where sellers' stocks are heterogeneous, and buyers suffer significant losses from partial satisfaction of their requests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1007/3-540-44799-7_17
CIA
Keywords
Field
DocType
equilibria strategies,electronic trade,partial satisfaction,simulation tool,satisfying buyers,buyer purchase request,electronic seller-agents,trade activity,previous research,arrival order,selecting sellers,purchase request,first served,satisfiability
Dynamism,Strategic behavior,Computer science,Microeconomics,Knowledge management,Stock exchange,Stock (geology),Economic shortage,Forward auction,Voluntary exchange
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2182
0302-9743
3-540-42545-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.79
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudia V. Goldman172664.56
Sarit Kraus26810768.04
Onn Shehory32428257.32