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Comparing Search and Intermediation Frictions Across Markets

Gabor Pinter, Semih Uslu   Aug 26,2023

Working Paper No.00127-00

In intermediated markets, trading takes time and intermediaries extract rents. We estimate a structural search-and-bargaining model to quantify these trading... Read More

Blockchain Adoption in a Supply Chain with Manufacturer Market Power

Garud Iyengar,Jay Sethuraman,Wenjun Wang, Fahad Saleh   Oct 17,2023

Working Paper No.00079-01

We examine a supply chain with a single risk-averse manufacturer who purchases from suppliers and sells to consumers. Within this... Read More

Technological Progress and Rent Seeking

Guillermo Ordonez, Vincent Glode   Nov 01,2022

Working Paper No.00082-00

We model firms' allocation of resources between surplus-creating (a.k.a., productive) and surplus-appropriating (a.k.a., rent-seeking) activities. We show that industry-wide technological... Read More

Lending and Monitoring: Big Tech vs Banks

Catherine Casamatta,Rui xiong, Matthieu Bouvard   Nov 21,2022

Working Paper No.00087-00

We show that by lending to merchants and monitoring them, an e-commerce platform can price-discriminate between merchants with high and... Read More