Hatfield, John William; Kominers, Scott Duke - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 176-208
We introduce a model in which firms trade goods via bilateral contracts which specify a buyer, a seller, and the terms of the exchange. This setting subsumes (many-to-many) matching with contracts, as well as supply chain matching. When firms' relationships do not exhibit a supply chain...