Smart Markets

In 1988 Kevin McCabe, Stephen Rassenti, and Vernon Smith teamed up to study call auctions as applied to simple, composite, and 'smart' markets.  This led to an understading that market institutions provide participants with a centralized computation based on decentralized information and that well designed auctions give participants an incentive to provide sufficiently reliable information about their private values and costs to facilitate such a computation.

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