, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …

Sponsored search mechanisms, where advertisers bid for placement to beas close to the top in the listing of search … results, are the fastestgrowing among online search models. Sponsored search in popular searchservices such as Google and … Yahoo! employ an auction mechanism whereinfirms can bid, for a better placement in the (sponsored) search results …

assortments. Consumers facea search problem within an assortment of horizontally differentiatedproducts supplied by a monopolist …. They may search for a product matchby drawing products from the assortment or by seeking word of mouthrecommendations from …

application of Fourier-based learning.The primary contribution of this thesis is a new search algorithm for finding the largest … coefficients of a function's Fourier representation. Although the search space is exponentially large, empirical results …-world problems with algorithms based on this search technique are also presented. The accuracies of the Fourier-based learning …

empirically how internationalization influences strategic changes by affecting exploratory search. This research also challenges … internationalization has a curvilinear relationship with exploratory search. In addition, speed of internationalization, rhythm of … internationalization, and international experience moderate the relationship between internationalization and exploratory search …

Previous research has suggested that depth of search in chess does not increase much as a function of skill. We … submitted players to a problem-solving task with complex positions. We found a strong skill effect in depth of search, rate of … search, and number of nodes generated. At the level of strong masters, the absolute values of these variables were much …

In this dissertation, I investigate how government policies influence an individual's decision to search for and accept … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …