Showing 1 - 10 of 61
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015189441
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669318
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011367019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413591
We examine the competition between a group of Internet retailers who operate in an environment where a price search engine plays a dominant role. We show that for some products in this environment, the easy price search makes demand tremendously price-sensitive. Retailers, though, engage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972102
This paper examines a model in which advertisers bid for "sponsored-link" positions on a search engine. The value advertisers derive from each position is endogenized as coming from sales to a population of consumers who make rational inferences about firm qualities and search optimally....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976949
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation- based indexes of individuals' research output. This paper views Hirsch's index as one member of a larger class and examines how well different indexes align with labor market outcomes for young, tenured economists at 50 US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815909
This paper explores differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two thousand public, coeducational, non-magnet,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821988
type="main" <p>This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open-source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open-source software (OSS) are motivated by...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011033891
This paper develops search-theoretic models in which it is individually rational for firms to engage in obfuscation. It considers oligopoly competition between firms selling a homogeneous good to a population of rational consumers who incur search costs to learn each firm's price. Search costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037694