Subsidies to consumers may cause firms to charge higher prices, which offsets consumer benefits from subsidies. We study a subsidy program design that mitigates such price increases by making products' eligibility for a subsidy dependent on firms' commitment to price ceilings. To quantify the...

In this paper, we study consumer search in a housing market subject to objective frictions induced by intermediaries and psychological frictions intrinsic to in tenants themselves. Using rental data from a leading real estate brokerage company during 2016 and 2018, we find a unimodal...

In this paper, we consider a housing market subject to objective and psychological search frictions. Using rental data from a leading real estate brokerage company during 2016 and 2018, we find a normal distribution of objective frictions and a bimodal distribution of subjective frictions, which...