The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses … good idea to harmonise European book policies. Our analysis suggests that the book market seems quite able to invent … solutions to specific problems of the book trade and that, apart from promoting reading, there is little need for government …

. Equilibrium investments and the equilibrium matching will be efficient if agents can simultaneously negotiate investments and … matches, but we focus on markets in which agents must first sink their investments before matching. Additional equilibria may … arise in this sunk-investment setting, even though our matching market is competitive. These equilibria exhibit …

Since the internet’s earliest days, firms and workers have used various online methods to advertise and find jobs …. Until recently there has been little evidence that any internet-based tool has had a measurable effect on job search or … firms are at last developing ways to use the internet as an effective matchmaking tool. …

The internet virtually revolutionized the possibilities of employee recruiting. First of all, this contribution … undertakes a description of the market. Then, advantages and possible problems of the recruitment via internet are discussed. The … empirical study analyses the issues, which persons search for and find a new job via internet and which consequences arise for …

, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data … on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet …

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

on the effects of broadband Internet on the housing market in order to quantify the value of broadband access in terms of … job search and matching quality using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). It measures … matching quality by the respondent's evaluation of his new job compared to his former job. The results show that job changers …

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way workers and firms are matched on the job market. Compared to newspapers … association of online job search and matching quality using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). My …