Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279257 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10507
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper explores the relationship between market accessibility and various participants' welfare in an intermediated directed-search market. For a general class of meeting technologies, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition under which efficiency requires imperfect accessibility, such that each seller's listing is only observed by some but not all buyers. We show that the platform optimally implements the efficient outcome, but fully extracts surplus from the transactions it intermediates. We also find that in general, buyers prefer to minimize market accessibility, while sellers prefer a weakly greater accessibility level than that which is socially efficient. The efficiency of imperfect accessibility is robust to the introduction of a second chance for unmatched buyers to search.
Subjects: 
meeting technology
directed search
platform
intermediation
accessibility
JEL: 
D83
J64
M37
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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