Meeting technologies and optimal trading mechanisms in competitive search markets

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 155, Issue C, 2015, Pages 1-15

  Lester, Benjamin ^a   Visschers, Ludo ^b,c   Wolthoff, Ronald ^d  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competing mechanisms; Matching function; Meeting technology; Search frictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927702459     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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