Nosal, Ed; Wong, Yuet-Yee; Wright, Randall D. - 2014
This paper generalizes Rubinstein and Wolinsky's model of middlemen (intermediation) by incorporating production and … and dynamics. In the benchmark model, equilibrium exists uniquely, and involves production and intermediation for some … parameters but not others. Sometimes intermediation is essential: the market operates iff middlemen are active. If bargaining …