of sellersof search goods as compared to sellers of experience and credence goods,and that there is significant adverse …Sponsored search mechanisms, where advertisers bid for placement to beas close to the top in the listing of search … results, are the fastestgrowing among online search models. Sponsored search in popular searchservices such as Google and …

, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …

-specific deviations in average wages as well as the returns to components of human capital -- race, gender, education, and experience …

first chapter, we study how the presence of moral hazard in labor contracts shapes the wage distribution in a search …

chapters I study the impact of Recruiting Selection in a labor market with search frictions. In Chapter 1, I depart from the … standard search model by allowing firms to simultaneously meet several applicants and choose the best candidate. The model … productivity. Under recruiting selection, lifetime inequality increases relative to the sequential search benchmark. I also show …

; experience; and diligence) and earnings conservatism is measured following Basu (1997) and Ball and Shivakumar (2005). Using a …

-stage’ forecasts and experience (defined in terms of the forecasters' length of service as a forecaster and the number of forecasts … prepared), learning styles and approaches-to-learning. The results show that, while the forecasters rated experience very … highly, the relationships between their ability to learn from experience, measured in terms of individual learning styles and …

little systematic evidence, thus far. We addresses this by examining the role experience plays at three possible points of …’. Drawing on prior research we expect novices more likely to have enacted ‘information search’ while habitual entrepreneurs … during venture gestation. What effect does entrepreneurial experience have on future expectations? Clearly a sense of realism …

-dependence theory and the relational view of the firm, I argue that the positive effect of investor experience on startup performance is … stronger when the startup faces a more uncertain environment. The first essay predicts a greater effect of investor experience …, investors have fewer incentives to make a contribution. The second essay examines the effect of investor experience on different …