Arbeitspapier

Marketmaking Middlemen

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 middleman mode by which an intermediary holds inventories which he stocks from sellers for the purpose of reselling to buyers; the other is a market-making mode by which an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show that a marketmaking middleman, who adopts the mixture of these two intermediation modes, can emerge in a directed search equilibrium.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6030

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: General
Financial Institutions and Services: General
Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General
Industry Studies: Services: General
General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
Thema
middlemen
marketmakers
platform
directed search

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gautier, Pieter A.
Hu, Bo
Watanabe, Makoto
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gautier, Pieter A.
  • Hu, Bo
  • Watanabe, Makoto
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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