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We introduce and solve a new class of static portfolio choice problems, where only the best realized alternative matters. A decision maker must simultaneously choose among independent ranked options, and the better alternatives have a lower chance of panning out. Each choice is costly, and just...
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I examine a search model a la' Burdett and Judd (1983). Consumers are embedded in a consumers network, they may costly … search for price quotations and the information gathered are non-excludable along direct links. This allows me to explore the … effect of endogenous consumers externalities on market functioning. I first show that when search costs are low consumers …
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This paper studies the launching of a new fiat currency within a search-theoretic framework. We show that legal tender …
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In this paper we compare production inefficiencies in bilateral meetings generated by two types of trading frictions: double-coincidence frictions and information frictions. For both types of frictions, money enlarges the sets of incentive-feasible allocations relative to barter. In environments...
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proportion of low search cost consumers increases. …
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of costly search to discover prices. We ask whether such equilibria can be learnt when sellers adjust proces adaptively …
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outside option, which is modeled as a sequential search process during which he can also choose to return to bargaining at any … time. Two cases considered: In Regime I, both agents have symmetric information about the search parameters. We find that …, delay is possible. The solution characterizes the parameters for renegotiation and those for search with no return to the …
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We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for … make no distributional assumptions about the quality of the alternatives. Rather, at each stage of the search the consumers …. Our study departs from previous experimental investigations of the secretary problem by including search costs and …
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by considering randomized monetary trades in a standard search-theoretic model of money where agents can hold multiple …
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This paper studies the role of money in environments where in each meeting there is a double coincidence of real wants. Traders who meet at random finance their purchases through current production, the sale of divisible money or both. It is shown that in the absence of valued money if traders...
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