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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 …
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We analyse a model of equilibrium directed search in a large labour market. Each worker, observing the wages posted at all vacancies, makes a fixed, finite number of applications, a. We allow for the possibility of ex post competition should more than one vacancy want to hire the same worker....
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In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...
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We consider a labor market with search frictions in which workers make multiple applications and firms can post and commit to general mechanisms that may be conditioned both on the number of applications received and on the number of offers received by its candidate. When the contract space...
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often differ among market segments. We develop a methodology for measuring house prices as a flexible function of housing … all parts of the housing market. Our approach is based on a generalization of the familiar (constant unit price) Muth … model to a situation of in which the unit price of housing services may depend on the quality level. We apply the method to …
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This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode by which an intermediary holds inventories...
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This paper studies optimal income taxation in an environment where matching frictions generate a trade-off for workers between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment...
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We explore how house prices evolve under technological progress, when housing serves for consumption as well as store …
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