Showing posts with label middlemen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middlemen. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

How have real estate agents kept commissions high? More on steering, by Barry, Fried, and Hatfield,

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 Here's a paper that offers one channel for how residential real estate commissions have been maintained at a more or less constant perc...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Boerner and Daniel Quint

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 As I'll explain below, here's a long-awaited paper that fully qualifies for that description: MEDIEVAL MATCHING MARKETS by Lars Bo...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Pharmacy Benefit Managers--Alex Chan on NPR's Planet Money podcast

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  Alex Chan is interviewed on the role of pharmacy benefit managers, their role in drug pricing, and some problems with the market design.
Thursday, April 30, 2020

When supply chains break down, brokers make markets

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During the Arab oil embargo of the U.S. in 1973, I remember hearing an oil broker discuss his day. He would cold call companies that used o...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Competition by intermediaries can drive up prices:

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A paper by Ben Edelman and Julian Wright considers how intermediaries can compete with each other for buyers by offering bigger refunds tha...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

"The organ detective:" article about anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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An interesting long article by Ethan Watters in the July/August issue of the Pacific Standard:  The Organ Detective: A Career Spent Uncover...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Literary agents as matchmakers

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Their secret, says Michael Bourne, is to try not to spend much time on work that they don't think they can sell... “A Right Fit”: Naviga...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Search firms in university hiring could become illegal in Illinois

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Search firms for hiring university administrators could become illegal for public universities in Illinois:  Illinois Bill Would Ban Use of ...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Sports agents and the NCAA

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Joe Nocera in the NY Times talks about yet another way that professional and college hockey interact differently than do other sports:  The ...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Internet dating not working for you? Hire a wingman or wingwoman

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I'm sure there's a Shakespeare comedy about this latest twist on the dating game... On a Wingman and a Prayer: Singles Bow to Cupi...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Real estate agents as middlemen

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A new NBER paper examines real estate agents in Boston: The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Middlemen and repugnance

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Luke Coffman has shown how employing a middleman can reduce the apparent blameworthiness of an action ( Intermediation Reduces Punishment (...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Medieval Matching Markets

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That's the title of a working paper by  Lars Börner and  Daniel Quint , studying brokerage rules developed by central and western Euro...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Brokers for pirate ransom

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Suppose your ship were hijacked by Somali pirates, and you wanted to ransom it and the crew. How would you go about it?  You would need a mi...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

The market for bulk commodity shipments

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The transport of bulk commodities by sea is a business that depends on matching loads to ships. When times are good, ships may be fully book...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Testing companies as (nonprofit) gate keepers

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In the U.S., the gate keepers to many kinds of opportunities are testing companies. Tests are the "standardised" part of college a...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Giving anonymously, through an intermediary

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I recently blogged about a service set up to enable people to give (relatively) small gifts anonymously, Giving anonymously, for a fee . La...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Update on scalping

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My old friend the sports economist Larry DeBrock writes to update my recent post on Scalping and intermediation : "...the Cubs won a bi...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Scalping and intermediation

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The resale of tickets for concerts and sporting events, at higher prices than those at which they were initially made available, is often re...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Networks and high school athletes

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While the NCAA regulates the communication between high school and college coaches, it has more trouble regulating third-party networkers, t...