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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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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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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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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 present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the …. Our model offers a new way to look at the housing market from a search-theoretic perspective. In addition, we contribute … to the directed search literature by considering a model in which the asking price (i) entails only limited commitment …
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coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms … matching rate in the high-productivity sector can then be realized with fewer applications (and consequently fewer coordination … to both sectors. For many configurations, the equilibrium outcomes are the same under directed and random search so our …
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Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
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