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标题：Does Competition Solve the Hold-up Problem?
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作者：Leonardo Felli ; Kevin Roberts
期刊名称：Distributional Analysis Publications
印刷版ISSN：1352-2469
出版年度：2011
卷号：2011
出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：In an environment in which heterogenous buyers and sellers undertake ex-ante investments, the presence of market competition for matches provides incentives for investment but may leave ineciencies that take the form of hold-up and coordination problems. This paper shows, using an explicitly non-cooperative model, that, when matching is assortative and investments precede market competition, buyers' investments are constrained ecient while sellers marginally underinvest with respect to what would be constrained ecient. However, the overall extent of this ineciency may be large. Multiple equilibria may arise; one equilibrium is characterized by ecient matches but there can be additional equilibria with coordination failures.