search costs, plus more general matching and bargaining. This allows us to study many new issues, including entry, efficiency …

matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A … in individual effects. As such the correlation in the raw smoking data is consistent with positive assortative matching …

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 …

consumers search for satisfactory deals. In the pre-merger symmetricequilibrium, the probability that a firm is the next one to … when they do not find any product satisfactory enough, they continue searching atthe merging stores. When search costs are … sizable search economies. Such demand-side economies can conferthe merging firms a prominent position in the marketplace, in …