Mechanisms for Trading Durable Goods

We consider trading indivisible and easily transferable \emph{durable goods}, which are goods that an agent can receive, use, and trade again for a different good. This is often the case with books that can be read and later exchanged for unread ones. Other examples of such easily transferable durable goods include puzzles, video games and baby clothes. We introduce a model for the exchange of easily transferable durable goods. In our model, each agent owns a set of items and demands a differe...