The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the USA since the 1990s on one aspect of this … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

Despite the mixed empirical evidence, many economists stillhold to the view that Internet will promote competition … betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically … analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products---books and CDs. Using a … data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …

Despite the widespread adoption of search and recommendation technologies on the Internet, empirical research that … this effect varies for different technologies and across different products. In particular, the use of directed search has … products. Surprisingly, the use of nondirected search has an insignificant effect on online sales. …

We study firms’ advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender … preferences from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job …

Search faces (at least) two major challenges. One is to improve the efficiency of retrieving relevant content for all … to assess the potential of future Mobile Search. Two broad groups of search-based applications can be identified. The … first group adapts and emulates web search processes and services to the mobile environment. The second is made up of …

This paper studies a model in which consumers search among multiple competing firms for products that match their … preferences at a reasonable price. We focus on how easier search, possibly due to the adoption of search-facilitating technologies … such as the Internet, influences equilibrium prices, assortments, firm profits, and consumer welfare. Conventional wisdom …

Proliferation of content on the internet offers consumers access to more sources than had been possible with … traditional media. Disaggregated content also increases the relevance of targeting for advertisers. But at the same time, search … effects of search technology and aggregators in digital media markets. A simple model shows how these institutions can alter …

We study how the levels of market price and price dispersion are associated with consumers兵 search costs and the level …