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 …

search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search …. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … commodities that are search intensive, i.e. that require a wide variety of tasks and make use of scarce worker types. Empirical …

distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is … argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees … search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival rate of workplaces is much higher than the arrival rate of jobs …

In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which …-the-jobmobility, spatially-differentiated search or heterogeneity ofjobs. Residential mobility does notappear to explain the shape of the …

the United States we find strong evidencefor a systematic concave relationship. An assignment model with search frictions …

decide whether to search for a new wild organism with a certain quality or to produce the drug in question with an extant …

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random … which neither affect expected utility norits variance. These changes have a great impact on the search behaviour …:the customer may start to search the characteristics and buy the goodeven if she did not do so before. The optimal search rule is …