This essay surveys the literature on directed/competitive search, covering theory and applications in, eg, labor, housing and monetary economics. These models share features …
This essay surveys the literature on directed/competitive search, covering theory and applications in, eg, labor, housing and monetary economics. These models share features …
Both buyers and sellers in decentralized markets make investments ex ante that constrain trading possibilities ex post: buyers decide in advance how much money to carry, while …
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Multiplicity of equilibria naturally obtains in search models of money with price posting: buyers' money holdings depend on posted prices, which, in turn, depend on buyers' money …
In a monetary economy, we show that price dispersion arises as an equilibrium outcome without the need for costly simultaneous search or any heterogeneity in preferences …