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Market Microstructure Daniel F. Spulber (Northwestern University, Illinois)

Market Microstructure By Daniel F. Spulber (Northwestern University, Illinois)

Market Microstructure by Daniel F. Spulber (Northwestern University, Illinois)

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Summary

This book addresses two closely related questions: 'why do firms exist?' and 'how do markets work?' Professor Spulber presents a theory of the firm based on various models of intermediation. The intermediation framework is compared with other analyses of the firm: neoclassical, industrial organization, transaction cost, and principal-agent.

Market Microstructure Summary

Market Microstructure: Intermediaries and the Theory of the Firm by Daniel F. Spulber (Northwestern University, Illinois)

This book presents a theory of the firm based on its economic role as an intermediary between customers and suppliers. Professor Spulber demonstrates how the intermediation theory of the firm explains firm formation by showing how they arise in a market equilibrium. In addition, the theory helps explain how markets work by showing how firms select market-clearing prices. Models of intermediation and market microstructure from microeconomics and finance shed considerable light on the formation and market-making activities of firms. The intermediation theory of the firm is compared to existing economic theories of the firm including the neoclassical, industrial organization, transaction cost, and principal-agent models.

Market Microstructure Reviews

Market Microstructure provides a rich new theoretical analysis of the role of firms in markets. It argues convincingly that by acting as intermediaries, firms can alleviate the problems of adverse selection, moral hazard, and high search costs, and can encourage valuable investment. Using elegantly simple models, this book offers deep new insights into why firms emerge and how markets function. Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
Dan Spulber has been among the foremost contributors to the recent research on the role of firms as intermediaries (i.e., as middlemen). Different researchers have focused on differing roles for the firm, including reducing costs due to asymmetric information, search and matching, adverse selection, transactions costs, and agency. His new book provides a clear presentation of these developments that is outstanding for its breadth and depth, and for the order and organization he brings to a challenging topic. James Friedman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Spulber's book provides an innovative and comprehensive look at two important issues--the formation and boundaries of firms and the microstructure of markets. This book does an excellent job of combining different models in a unified approach to studying firms and markets. I believe it will be an excellent text for students of this subject. Chaim Fershtman, Tel Aviv University

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Market Microstructure and the Intermediation Theory of the Firm: 1. Market microstructure and intermediation; 2. Price setting and intermediation by firms 3. Competition Part II. Competition and Market Equilibrium: 3. Competition between intermediaries; 4. Intermediation and general equilibrium; Part III. Intermediation Versus Decentralized Trade: 5. Matching and intermediation by firms; 6. Search and intermediation by firms; Part IV. Intermediation under Asymmetric Information: 7. Adverse selection in product markets; 8. Adverse selection in financial markets; Part V. Intermediation and Transaction Costs: 9. Transaction costs and the contractual theory for the firm; 10. Transaction costs and the intermediation theory of the firm; Part VI. Intermediation and Agency: 11. Agency and the organizational-incentive theory of the firm; 12. Agency and the intermediation theory of the firm; Conclusion.

Additional information

CIN0521659787VG
9780521659789
0521659787
Market Microstructure: Intermediaries and the Theory of the Firm by Daniel F. Spulber (Northwestern University, Illinois)
Daniel F. Spulber (Northwestern University, Illinois)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1999-04-13
408
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