We develop a new housing seach index (HSI) extracted from online search activity on a limited set of keywords related to the house buying process. We show that HSI has strong predictive power for subsequent changes in house prices, both in-sample and out-of-sample, and after controlling for the...

We provide a general framework to consider the effects of algorithmic demand and supply prediction in matching platforms, such as Task Rabbit for labor markets or Amazon for goods markets, where a significant proportion of matches are repeat transactions. We show that algorithmic repeat match...