We develop a model of search among substitutes for the best combination of commodity variant and price, in which the … structure of search costs can be manipulated by the suppliers of these variants, e.g. by joining an existing market or opening a …

This paper develops a dynamic model of consumer search that, despite placing very little structure on the dynamic … problem faced by consumers, allows us to exploit intertemporal variation in within-period price and search cost distributions … to estimate the population distribution from which consumers' search costs are initially drawn. We show that static …

of efficiency gains, namely lower search costs, better matching, and more intense product market price-competition.  A … monopolistic search engine charges advertisers too high a price, and has incentives to provide a suboptimal matching quality …Search engines enable advertisers to target consumers based on the query they have entered.  In a framework with …

presence of savvy consumers improves the deals available to non-savvy consumers in the market (the case of search externalities …

consistent with a model of incomplete learning, fatigue and either confirmation bias or costly search coupled with unbiased …

consistent with a model of incomplete learning, fatigue and either confirmation bias or costly search coupled with unbiased …