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This paper studies bargaining and exchange in a networked market with intermediation. Possibilities to trade are …
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The paper investigates price formation in a decentralized market with random matching. Agents are assumed to have subdued social preferences: buyers, for example, prefer a lower price to a higher one but experience reduced utility increases below a reference price which serves as a common...
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The paper investigates price formation in a decentralized market with random matching. Agents are assumed to have subdued social preferences: buyers, for example, prefer a lower price to a higher one but experience reduced utility increases below a reference price which serves as a common...
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We study the impacts of incomplete information on centralized one-to-one matching markets. We focus on the commonly used Deferred Acceptance mechanism (Gale and Shapley, 1962). We show that many complete-information results are fragile to a small infusion of uncertainty
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active in the "assembly line" process of modern financial intermediation, a system that has become known as shadow banking … acquiring the capability to engage in financial intermediation. I document instances of the emergence and growth of such nonbank … activities. I focus on securities lending, a well-understood example of shadow financial intermediation, and document the …
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Mechanisms where sellers set the price and are charged a linear commission fee are widely used by real world intermediaries, e.g. by real estate brokers. Empirically these commission fees exhibit very little variance, both across heterogeneous regional markets and over time. So far, there is no...
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This paper estimates the cost of using simple percentage fees rather than the broker optimal Bayesian mechanism, using data for real estate transactions in Boston in the mid-1990s. This counterfactual analysis shows that interme- diaries using the best percentage fee mechanisms with fees ranging...
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intermediation chains from buyers in their equivalence classes. Links within the same class constitute bottlenecks for information …
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