This paper examines the effect of the Internet on markets in which match-quality is important, including an analysis of … context of the used book market, exploiting both cross-sectional differences across books and time-series differences in the … wake of Amazon's acquisition and incorporation of a large used book marketplace. The paper develops a framework for …

important consideration, without which a match can be ineffective. Online matching platforms are a useful resource in such … credentials. In this paper, we examine an online matching platform's decisions about whether to offer positioning and … addressed by these services, we show that the choices online matching platforms face about offering them are non-trivial. We …