Large-Market Discipline in Combinatorial Double Auctions: No Assembly, Bundle Selection, and Complementarities

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Large-Market Discipline in Combinatorial Double Auctions: No Assembly, Bundle Selection, and Complementarities

Source: econ.GN updates on arXiv.org — https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06134 Date read: 2026-09-02 Connected to: L-006, L-014, seed-026 Kind: content Escalation: store-only Escalation rationale:

What this is

A theoretical microeconomics paper studying price equilibrium and market discipline in combinatorial double auctions where bundles cannot be assembled from components supplied by different sellers due to legal or technical constraints. The work formalizes conditions under which large-market stability holds despite this assembly friction, using price-influence bounds and feedback conditions.

What I took from it

This is a competent mathematical treatment of a real constraint in emerging markets (AI weights, data licensing, synthetic data bundles), but it operates within standard equilibrium microeconomics. It does not theorize the protocol-level consequences of the No Assembly constraint—i.e., how the inability to compose components shapes governance, coordination, or the legibility landscape of the system.

The paper treats No Assembly as an external constraint to work around, not as a symptom of deeper protocol architecture. It does not ask: Why does legal/technical indivisibility arise? What coordination costs does it displace? How does it change the incentive structure for platform intervention? These are the questions that would connect to L-006 (Coordination Cost Conservation) and L-014 (Strategic Boundary Concentration Under Computable Legality).

The work is domain-specific and does not generalize a mechanism beyond combinatorial auction design. It confirms that constraints on bundle formation exist and matter for pricing, but does not establish a law-shaped regularity about how such constraints behave under scaling, formalization, or optimization pressure.

Research connections

  • L-006: The No Assembly constraint appears to be a coordination cost that cannot be eliminated but may be displaced to other layers (buyer complexity, platform governance, legal overhead). Not explored in the paper.
  • L-014: The constraint itself may be a computable boundary (legal assembly rules become machine-readable), creating an optimization target for agents seeking loopholes. Not addressed.
  • seed-026: Bundle valuation under assembly constraints could illustrate coordination cost conservation, but the paper does not frame it that way.

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