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Consumer search costs and preferences on the internet
Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
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When the baby cries at night : inelastic buyers in non-competitive markets
Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - 2014
of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively …
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Correlation neglect in belief formation
Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2013
Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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Search, screening and sorting
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021
We investigate the effect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset of them. In this environment, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for sorting...
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Search costs and the determinants of job search
Beam, Emily A. - 2020
This paper examines how individuals select into job search in terms of their individual qualifications and perceptions and measures how recruiting additional applicants with a modest job-search subsidy affects selection. I use experimental evidence to examine individuals' decisions to attend and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296667
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
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Testing the reference-dependent model : a laboratory search experiment
Miura, Takahiro; Inukai, Keigo; Sasaki, Masaru - 2019
Our paper conducts laboratory experiments with the sequential search model to test whether participants engage in search activities in line with theoretical predictions derived from the expected utility model or the reference-dependent model, without assuming any specific formulation rule for a...
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Search frictions, competing mechanisms and optimal market segmentation
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2016
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of buyer is the efficient outcome if and only if meetings are...
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Directed search in the housing market
Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2009
In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the way houses are bought and sold in the United States. Our model is consistent with the observation that houses are sometimes sold above, sometimes below and sometimes at the...
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Search, migration, and urban land use : the case of transportation policies
Zenou, Yves - 2010
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
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