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See also the article <I>Search Costs, Demand-side Economies, and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition … merge in a Bertrand competitionmodel where firms sell differentiated products and consumers search the marketfor … than the outsiders so consumers search forgood deals first at the non-merging stores and then, if they do not find …
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decide whether to search for a new wild organism with a certain quality or to produce the drug in question with an extant …
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I examine a search model a la' Burdett and Judd (1983). Consumers are embedded in a consumers network, they may costly … search for price quotations and the information gathered are non-excludable along direct links. This allows me to explore the … effect of endogenous consumers externalities on market functioning. I first show that when search costs are low consumers …
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We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...
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This paper builds a consumer search model where the cost of going back to stores already searched is explicitly taken … into account. We show that the optimal search rule under costly recall is very different from the optimal search rule under … perfect recall. Under costly recall, the optimal search behaviour is nonstationary and, moreover, the reservation price is not …
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betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …
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Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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We develop an economic theory of “flexibility”, which we interpret as the discretion orability to make a decision that others disagree with. We show that flexibility is essentiallyan option for the decisionmaker, and can be valued as such. The value of the flexibilityoption is decreasing in...
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We analyse a model of equilibrium directed search in a large labour market. Each worker, observing the wages posted at …
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In this paper we propose the use of <I>preferred outcome</I> distributions as a new method to elicit individuals' value and probability weighting functions in decisions under risk. Extant approaches for the elicitation of these two key ingredients of individuals' risk attitude typically rely on a long,...</i>
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