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is little evidence of learning over the 40 matches of the experiment. …
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-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
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We develop a theoretical framework to study illicit drugs markets and we estimate it using data on purchases of crack cocaine. Buyers are searching for high-quality drugs, but they determine drugs' quality (i.e., their purity) only after consuming them. Hence, sellers can rip off first-time...
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-sharing due to search frictions implies that ‘good’ jobs which have higher creation costs must pay higher wages. This wage …
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In this paper we analyse the role of asymmetric information between firms and consumers about market conditions. In standard models of oligopoly informational advantages of firms over customers do not play a role because all prices are observable. When customers are unable to observe all...
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or more of the posted wages, i.e. search, before deciding where to apply. Both with homogeneous and heterogeneous forms …, equilibrium wage dispersion is necessary for the economy to approximate efficiency. Without wage dispersion, workers do not search …, and wages are depressed. As a result: (a) there is excessive entry of firms; and (b) because, in the absence of search …
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The paper explains how a country can fall into a 'low-skill, bad-job trap', in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little...
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We develop a model of search among substitutes for the best combination of commodity variant and price, in which the … structure of search costs can be manipulated by the suppliers of these variants, e.g. by joining an existing market or opening a …
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Fundamental models of money always exhibit autarkic equilibria where money has no value. In this paper we propose a simple procedure to select among equilibria in such models. Our procedure unveils a natural mapping between equilibrium behavior and the primitives of the economy, thus offering...
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