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platform, in which case consumers retain part of the economic rents. The market allocation is constraint efficient in the sense …
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This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … other. In our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service …
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the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of …
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disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular …
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Auctions of government bonds are the main allotment method used by the Treasury of advanced economies. Previous research has found that auctions have an influence on the market yield days before they take place, and underpricing is usually spotted when their outcome is compared with...
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This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro - denominated government securities. Analyzing price data on daily transactions for 107 bonds over a period of twenty - seven months, we find a greater degree of price leadership...
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This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design … load factors, and raise aircraft fuel efficiency, while having no effect on aircraft size. Given that these adjustments …
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We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium...
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In a laboratory experiment with supply function competition and private information about correlated costs we study whether cost interdependence leads to greater market power in relation to when costs are uncorrelated in the ways predicted by Bayesian supply function equilibrium. We find that...
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A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal...
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