Search Results - subject:"Search Models"

Simulating Sequential Search Models with Genetic Algorithms: Analysis of Price Ceilings, Taxes, Advertising and Welfare

McCarthy, Ian - Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research … - 2008

CAEPR Working Paper #2008-010 Simulating Sequential Search Models with Genetic Algorithms …. Simulating Sequential Search Models with Genetic Algorithms: Analysis of Price Ceilings, Taxes, Advertising and Welfare Ian … search models and, in particular, advertising, taxes and price ceilings. Although we brie y discuss convergence issues in …

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Over-the-Counter Trade and the Value of Assets as Collateral

Geromichalos, Athanasios; Lee, Jiwon; Lee, Seungduck; … - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2014

We study asset pricing within a general equilibrium model where unsecured credit is ruled out, and a real asset helps agents carry out mutually beneficial transactions by serving as collateral. A unique feature of our model is that the agent who provides the loan might have a low valu- ation for...

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The Job Search Intensity Supply Curve: How Labor Market Conditions Affect Job Search Effort

Schwartz, Jeremy - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open positions (as measured by the Help Wanted OnLine Index) more than tripled. The weak labor market prompted an unprecedented extension in the length of time in which a claimant can...

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Relative price and inflation variability in a simple consumer search model

Hajzler, Christopher; Fielding, David - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 1, pp. 17-22

There is a large empirical literature on the effect of aggregate inflation on both price-level dispersion (relative price variability, RPV) and inflation rate dispersion (relative inflation variability, RIV) across goods or locations. Early empirical work of RIV has an explicit theoretical...

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Relative price and inflation variability in a simple consumer search model

Hajzler, Christopher; Fielding, David - In: Economics letters 123 (2014) 1, pp. 17-22

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Asset liquidity and international portfolio choice

Geromichalos, Athanasios; Simonovska, Ina - In: Journal of economic theory 151 (2014), pp. 342-380

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Prejudice and Gender Differentials in the U.S. Labor Market in the Last Twenty Years

Flabbi, Luca - Georgetown University, Department of Economics - 2007

Earnings differentials between men and women have experienced a stable convergence during the 1980s, following a process started in the late 1970s. However, in the 1990s the convergence has almost stopped. The first objective of the paper is to evaluate if discrimination, defined as explicit...

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Prejudice and Gender Differentials in the U.S. Labor Market in the Last Twenty Years

Flabbi, Luca - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2007

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House Price Changes and Idiosyncratic Risk: The Impact of Property Characteristics

Bourassa, Steven; Haurin, Donald; Haurin, Jessica; … - Ohio State University, Department of Economics - 2007

codes: R31, R21, D83 Keywords: Atypicality, Bargaining, Housing Risk, House Price Appreciation, Search Models 2 … research on two variants of search models where the focus was on house price determination. Next, we present formal models of …

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Searching the eBay Marketplace

Sailer, Katharina - 2006

This paper proposes a framework for demand estimation with data on bids, bidders' identities, and auction covariates from a sequence of eBay auctions. First the aspect of bidding in a marketplace environment is developed. Form the simple dynamic auction model with IPV and private bidding costs...

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