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search. Sellers simultaneously post prices and decide whether or not to incur an exogenous cost to advertise their price … increases in either search or advertising costs are reflected in higher equilibrium prices. To test the predictions regarding … the level and dispersion of prices and advertising intensity, we vary the costs of search and advertising as well as the …
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This paper studies imperfect price competition between two intermediaries in an electronic business-to-business matching market with indirect network externalities. The intermediaries differ with regard to their ownership structure: an independent third party incumbent marketplace competes with...
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This paper shows that, unlike what has been found in other papers, a hydro reservoir is an effective tool to exercise market power. Its appealing as a tool is enhanced by the fact that there is no need to constrain total hydro production - a practice too easy to detect -; it suffices to distort...
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This paper studies passengers' choice behavior in air travel. Products are defined as a unique combination of airline and flight itinerary while markets are defined as a directional round-trip air travel between an origin and a destination city. A structural econometric model is used to...
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search frictions. We consider a homogeneous population where each agent, in every period, has a choice between specializing … partners. They may be found in a decentralized search market, but search takes time. Merchants set up trading posts where they … offer an immediate trade in return for a commission that each merchant sets every period. Although the location of a …
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for a really bad school compared to just a bad school. In this paper, we formulate a simple housing search model that …
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Recent research shows that observed labor market flows can be explained in search and matching models only by assuming …, in turn, is a central determinant of wages in the Nash bargaining approach. We argue in this paper that on-the-job search …-the-job search in a fully specified, real DSGE model with endogenous labor market flows. There are two types of jobs, good and bad …
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goods market but a labor market with search friction. In the labor market, firms post wages and both employed and unemployed … workers search among the posted wages. In equilibrium, a higher inflation rate reduces the dispersion in real wages. This …
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We introduce and solve a new class of static portfolio choice problems, where only the best realized alternative matters. A decision maker must simultaneously choose among independent ranked options, and the better alternatives have a lower chance of panning out. Each choice is costly, and just...
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This paper develops a search-theoretic model of the cross-sectional distribution of asset returns. It abstracts from …
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