options, and there is less incentive to search. We also discuss a behavioral model where the propensity to buy increases when …

search sequentially for satisfactory deals. In the pre-merger symmetric equilibrium, consumers visit firmsrandomly. However … non-merging stores, and only when they do not find a satisfactory product there they visit the merging firms. As search … products of the constituent firms, which generates sizable search economies. We show that such demand-side economies can confer …

demand with optimal consumer search. Consumers first choose which products to search; then, once they learn the utility they … characteristics but also from variation in the costs of searching them. We apply the model to the automobile industry. Our search cost … estimate is highly significant and indicates that consumers conduct a limited amount of search. Estimates of own- and cross …

disadvantaged students, and making the school-to-work transition less abrupt. To facilitate good matching and enhance sectoral … unemployment rate. Mobility is hampered by the underdevelopment of the rental housing market, while there is room to enhance the …

, housing and social security. …