Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms
1 Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato December 2014 Job Market Paper Latest version at Abstract. We study a central economic problem for peer-to-peer online marketplaces: how to create successful matches when demand and supply are highly variable. To do this, we develop a parsimonious model of a frictional matching...
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