make investments before matching in a competitive market. We introduce the notion of premune-ation values—the values to the …

prevalence of social networks in job search there is as yet no consensus on the mechanisms for why referrals are so important: an …

We prove existence of steady-state equilibrium in a class of matching models with search frictions. …

Experimental studies of search behavior suggest that individuals stop searching earlier than predicted by the optimal … standard search task as well as a lottery task designed to elicit utility functions. We find that search heuristics are not …

We develop a three-stage model of abatement technology search, adoption, and deployment. Using this model, which draws … on search theory tools more frequently used in labour and monetary economics, we compare market-based and command …-and-control pollution control instruments with respect to the incentives each provides for abatement technology search and adoption …