所属部门:国际工商管理学院
主题:Search frictions in crowd funding markets
报告人:许梦涵 厦门大学 助理教授
时间:2016-12-09 13:30 至 15:00
地点:国际工商管理学院108
报告人简介:This paper studies how search frictions affect price competition and funding allocation in the crowdfunding market theoretically and empirically. I develop a dynamic many-to-one matching model with fixed sample search, a la Burdett and Judd (1983) and show that borrowers employ mixed strategies in setting interest rates in unique stationary equilibrium. Empirically, by documenting a novel data on a large panel of fundraisers’ behaviors, I find persistent rate dispersion and funding mismatches, which is consistent with theoretical predictions induced by search friction. More importantly, model implies that in a many-to-one matching market, price dispersion caused by search frictions facilitates investor coordination and hence improves matching efficiency compared with that in a random matching environment. According to a non-parametric estimation, I find that with dispersed rates, coordination effect can improve aggregate funding probability by 28% compared with random matching situation