Competing for contacts: network competition, trade intermediation and fragmented duopoly

A two-sided, pair-wise matching model is developed to analyse the strategic interaction between two information intermediaries who compete in commission rates and network size, giving rise to a fragmented duopoly market structure. The model suggests that network competition between information inter...

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Formato: Working paper
Publicado: University of Oxford 2007