MIDDLEMEN IN SEARCH EQUILIBRIUM
This article shows how allowing for goods to be divisible at the point of consumption and incorporating productive heterogeneity lead to the emergence of middlemen in an equilibrium search environment. In the baseline model, middlemen are welfare reducing and their number increases as market frictions are reduced. When the model is extended to allow for time taken in production and increasing returns to scale in the market meeting technology, middlemen can be beneficial to society by speeding up the meeting process. Copyright 2007 by the Economics Department Of The University Of Pennsylvania And Osaka University Institute Of Social And Economic Research Association.
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2007
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Authors: | Masters, Adrian |
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International Economic Review. - Department of Economics. - Vol. 48.2007, 1, p. 343-362
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Department of Economics |
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