equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … estimated parameter values welfare is improved if unemployed workers increase their search intensity. …

We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which …

two-sided search and matching model used to rationalize the empirical facts and carry out predictions regarding match …

We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany's electricity retail. We … utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a … direct measure of search intensity and combine this information with zip code level data on electricity tariffs between 2011 …

search costs, plus more general matching and bargaining. This allows us to study many new issues, including entry, efficiency …

This note presents an ordered search model in which consumers search both for price and product fitness. We construct … an equilibrium in which there is price dispersion and prices rise in the order of search. The top firms in consumer … search process, though charge lower prices, earn higher profits due to their larger market shares. …

incurring a positive search cost, the agent can consult an expert, whose interest is partially aligned with him. There are … vanishing search cost. The main findings are as follows. First, there are signal structures with which both the agent's payoff …

increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers become choosier and …

recommendations and price offers only after consumers have approached them, creating additional market power due to search costs. In … the expert and fringe firms is costly. For search costs that are not excessively high, in equilibrium the expert … mistakenly leave the expert, and some low-severity consumers incur unnecessary search costs. Total welfare is non-monotonic in …