Intermediation and competition in search markets: An empirical case study

T Salz - Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
… One data caveat is that I observe only the prices that brokers charge customers in 2014, and
I cannot match these prices to the customer register contract data. Therefore, I run a hedonic …

Intermediaries

P Di Caro, L Di Gaetano, I Mazza - Handbook of Cultural …, 2020 - elgaronline.com
… help to solve different problems that may hinder the matching … Secondly, they reduce inspection
and transaction costs that … A two-sided market is characterized by the presence of cross-…

Search, matching, and the role of digital marketplace design in enabling trade: Evidence from airbnb

A Fradkin - Matching, and the Role of Digital Marketplace Design …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
… and perhaps the presence of better matching options. Those … Dis-intermediation without a
platform is also unlikely to be a … In column (3) I test whether the rejection effect is mitigated by …

An analysis of search and authentication strategies for online matching platforms

A Basu, S Bhaskaran, R Mukherjee - Management Science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
… We examine whether an online matching platform should … customers, even in the presence
of the authentication problem … points to the value of intermediaries that provide authentication …

Consumer search and filtering on online retail platforms

B Jiang, T Zou - Journal of Marketing Research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… to search fewer products but buy products with higher match … to consumers (without any
intermediary/platform) versus when … information and can increase consumers’ inspection or …

Trust, information asymmetry and professional service online referral agents

G Pedeliento, D Andreini, M Bergamaschi… - Journal of Service …, 2017 - emerald.com
… which are matched to stored information about products or … Acknowledging this gap, this
paper investigates how the intermediation of … To test for configural invariance, we estimated the …

The power of default on Reddit: A general model to measure the influence of information intermediaries

P Jürgens, B Stark - Policy & Internet, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… site Reddit, we provide a first test of one of the model's central hypotheses—namely, that …
Users regularly customize this selection to match their own interests. However, such a change …

Modern mediators: intermediaries' informational roles in sourcing from China

Y Virtanen, A Salmi, X Qin - Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 2022 - emerald.com
… on intermediation strategies by empirically examining both … play a critical role in matching
the buyers with the most compatible … that intermediaries send is that they have a local presence

[PDF][PDF] The economics of network effects and user data in the provision of search, search advertising, and display Ad intermediation

AV Lerner - 2019 - accc.gov.au
… without a rigorous fact-based examination of the relevant market(… advertising and the existence
of advertiser fixed costs, which … ’s search, even when the literal search terms do not match

Many‐to‐many matching and price discrimination

R Gomes, A Pavan - Theoretical Economics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Over the last two decades, the Internet has permitted the development of matching intermediaries
of … The presence of such cross-side effects is what distinguishes price discrimination in …