Costly Information Intermediation as a Natural Monopoly
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-201721r
Note: This is a revision of Working Paper 17-21 which was issued in November of 2017.
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- Daniel Monte & Roberto Pinheiro, 2017. "Costly Information Intermediation as a Natural Monopoly," Working Papers (Old Series) 1721, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
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Keywords
Natural Monopoly; Market Structure; Costly Information trade;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D47 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Market Design
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2018-12-17 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2018-12-17 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2018-12-17 (Microeconomics)
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