Talk:Double auction

direct copy
This seems to be a direct copy of http://www.agorics.com/Library/Auctions/auction6.html 83.86.72.104 23:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Just so the above doesn't cause confusion--the above link no longer exists, and the current page is new and completely different than the one when that comment was posted. C RETOG 8(t/c) 05:42, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Average mechanism
Is stated to be IR, BB, and EE, but not TF. By TF is must mean Dominant Strategy Equilibrium (ICDS)?

Omits Sequential Double Auctions
The Wikipedia article only considers batched trading mechanisms where all orders are evaluated simultaneously. Sequential trading, such as occurs on the stock and commodity markets, is more commonly represented in the double auction experiments literature. Such sequential trading generally consists of maintaining a limit order book and bid-ask improvement rules. Probably the most well known examples of double auction experiments are those reported in Vernon Smith's 1962 paper, An Experimental Study of Competitive Market Behavior in The Journal of Political Economy. That and a lifetime of subsequent work led to an award of the "Nobel prize" in Economics in 2002. Another early example of double auctions would be the lab software for sequential trading described by Plott and Gray (1989), "The Multiple Unit Double Auction" https://authors.library.caltech.edu/81363/ -- which describes the LAN-based markets run at Caltech in the 1980s and early 1990s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.57.84.245 (talk) 22:26, 6 September 2020 (UTC)