History's Role in Coordinating Decentralized Allocation Decisions
分析分散供应商如何实现一价定律的分配，探讨历史信息在解决价格信号不足和战略不确定性中的作用，并报告实验室证据。
What causes individual suppliers to allocate goods in such a way that the aggregate allocation satisfies the law of one price? A satisfactory answer to this question must confront two related problems: equal net prices at all allocations provide no information to suppliers about the quantity to deliver to a specific location and strategic uncertainty makes an observed violation of the law of one price an unreliable indicator of a profit opportunity. This paper develops a simple analytical framework to formalize these two problems, reviews some solutions found in the literature, and reports laboratory evidence on how people solve them. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.