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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 … Yahoo! employ an auction mechanism whereinfirms can bid, for a better placement in the (sponsored) search results …
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assortments. Consumers facea search problem within an assortment of horizontally differentiatedproducts supplied by a monopolist …. They may search for a product matchby drawing products from the assortment or by seeking word of mouthrecommendations from …
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Research on Internet usage focuses on enjoyment, fun and service encounters provided most focus group participants with pleasurable experiences. However, in this exploratory research four focus groups were conducted to determine other factors. Recruits came from a mixture of undergraduate...
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consumer search in electronic markets. In conventional markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer … electronic markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer’s mental awareness of different retailers … — and this awareness is likely to be concentrated in the hands of a few retailers.Based on this model of consumer search, IT …
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There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a data set of over 8,500 price observations collected...
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How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching-model is developed, in which the unemployment pool consists of heterogeneous unemployed workers, short-term and long-term unemployed, and with an endogenous skill-depreciation of the...
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How does technical progress affect long-term unemployment? The relationship between long-term unemployment and the rate of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers and with endogenously determined long-term unemployed...
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effort and oceanographic data. This dataset is used to test the hypothesis that intensive fishing effort increases the search …
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in costly search. Individual harvesters governed by an ITQ policy still face a collective action problem which limits the … incentive to share information on stock locations. This can lead to redundant search effort. We demonstrate that both sources of …
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of diversity in search models. A measure of "aggregate variability" is appropriate to such models. Values derived from … search models tend to be well behaved; they exhibit diminishing returns in diversity. In contrast, a definition of diversity … necessarily well behaved. The differences between diversity values arising in search models and those arising from more general …
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