When agents are liquidity constrained, two options exist - sell assets or borrow. We compare the allocations arising in …

The paper extends the basic Stiglitz (1982) model of optimal income taxation into general search equilibrium. When we …

The matching of likes is a frequently observed phenomenon. However, for such assortative matching to arise in a search … model, often implausibly strong conditions are required. This paper shows that, once signals are introduced, a search model … of random search, which creates in effect an almost frictionless environment. Hence the unique separating equilibrium in …

betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …

the United States we find strong evidencefor a systematic concave relationship. An assignment model with search frictions …

distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …

I examine a search model a la' Burdett and Judd (1983). Consumers are embedded in a consumers network, they may costly … search for price quotations and the information gathered are non-excludable along direct links. This allows me to explore the … effect of endogenous consumers externalities on market functioning. I first show that when search costs are low consumers …

This paper builds a consumer search model where the cost of going back to stores already searched is explicitly taken … into account. We show that the optimal search rule under costly recall is very different from the optimal search rule under … perfect recall. Under costly recall, the optimal search behaviour is nonstationary and, moreover, the reservation price is not …

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random … which neither affect expected utility norits variance. These changes have a great impact on the search behaviour …:the customer may start to search the characteristics and buy the goodeven if she did not do so before. The optimal search rule is …