Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147838 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10152
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 where an intermediary holds inventories which he stocks from sellers for the purpose of reselling to buyers; the other is a market-making mode where 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.
Subjects: 
middlemen
marketmakers
platform
directed search
JEL: 
D4
G2
L1
L8
R1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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