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Search costs, demand-side economies and the incentives to merge under Betrand competition
Moraga-González, José Luis; Petrikaite, Vaiva - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722700
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Search, screening and sorting
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021
We investigate the e↵ect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with … derive the necessary and sucient conditions for sorting in applications as well as matches. We show that positive sorting is … obtained when production complementarities outweigh a force against sorting measured by a quality-quantity elasticity …
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Spatial search
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2024
This paper considers a random search model where some locations provide sellers with better chances of meeting many buyers than other locations (for example popular shopping streets or the first page of a search engine). When sellers are heterogeneous in terms of the quality of their product...
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Geographic concentration of business services firms : a poisson sorting model
Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos van; Rietveld, Piet - 2011
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Working for a good cause
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720708
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Incentives and the sorting of altruistic agents into street-level bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010
sanction, but necessitates an increase in expected wage compensation, which can result in sorting from both the top and bottom … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377373
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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2012
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382706
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The impact of environmental policy on foreign trade : Tobey revisited with a bilateral flow model
Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2000
We consider the microfoundations controversy from the perspective of economic evolution. Although the analogy between biology and economics has been noted before, it has rarely focused on clarifying the micro-macro distinction in economic theory and modelling. The micro-macro debate is more...
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Cultural diversity and cultural distance as choice determinants of migration destination
Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
sorting behaviour. We use an attitudinal survey to quantify cultural distances between natives and immigrants in the area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358424
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The effect of railway travel on urban spatial structure
Dröes, Martijn I.; Rietveld, Piet - 2014
We examine the effect of railway travel on urban spatial structure in a polycentric urban land use model. We focus on the role of access to the railway network. We find that if the number of train stations is limited, the degree of urbanization is higher around train stations, but the effect of...
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