We study the welfare implications of competing middlemen in a two-sided market, where goods are intermediated between providers and purchasers. In our model, the intermediary sets the quantities to purchase and sell, and the prices are a consequence of a Cournot model. Our analysis shows that,...

Debt financing plays an important role in the funding of innovative firms, and patents have been increasingly used as collateral. We examine financing of innovative firms when future innovations are not verifiable and hence patenting, which creates a verifiable asset, cannot be contracted upon....