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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 … merchant's trading post must be discovered through search, producers who are informed of the location of a trading post have …
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This paper considers the possibility that a seller can contract with one uninformed buyer prior to an auction involving two potential buyers. In a more general setting than previous literature, strategic ex-ante contracts not only extract rent from entrants, but could also mitigate the...
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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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One result of the deregulation of utilities in New Zealand has been the bypass of existing networks. We investigate two cases of bypass in the distribution of natural gas, and compare the welfare properties of regulation vs.\ the `laissez-faire' equilibrium. We demonstrate that installing a...
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In this paper, we consider the network as an alternative trading environment to the market. The main distinctive feature of the network transaction is the dependence of buyers' purchasing behavior, which makes all consumers not equally valuable to a seller. We characterize the optimal behavior...
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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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We study the impact on asset prices of illiquidity associated with search and bargaining in an economy in which agents … find each other more easily. Prices become Walrasian as investors' or marketmakers' search intensities get large …. Endogenizing search intensities yields natural welfare implications. Information can fail to be revealed through trading when …
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We study the impact on asset prices of illiquidity associated with search and bargaining in an economy in which agents … find each other more easily. Prices become Walrasian as investors' or marketmakers' search intensities get large …. Endogenizing search intensities yields natural welfare implications. Information can fail to be revealed through trading when …
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In this paper, we develop a search-based model of asset trading. We assume that investors differ in their horizons, and … can invest in two identical assets. The asset markets are partially segmented: investors can search in only one market … ``liquid" market has higher volume and prices, and lower search times for buyers and sellers. The clientele equilibrium …
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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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