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Who Searches?

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  • KLAUS KULTTI
  • ANTTI MIETTUNEN
  • TUOMAS TAKALO
  • JUHA VIRRANKOSKI

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We consider a directed search model with buyers and sellers and determine whether buyers look for sellers or vice versa. The buyers and sellers can choose to search or wait; what they do in equilibrium depends on the relative size of the two populations and the price formation mechanism. We study bargaining and auctions and find that when one population is much larger than the other the former searches and the latter waits. Under auction with roughly equal populations some buyers and sellers search and some wait. Our results challenge the practice of postulating who searches and who waits.

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  • Klaus Kultti & Antti Miettunen & Tuomas Takalo & Juha Virrankoski, 2009. "Who Searches?," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 60(2), pages 152-171, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jecrev:v:60:y:2009:i:2:p:152-171
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2008.00435.x
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    1. Derek Stacey, 2019. "Posted Prices, Search and Bargaining," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 33, pages 85-104, July.
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    3. Klaus Kultti & Eeva Mauring, 2010. "Search with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Agents," Finnish Economic Papers, Finnish Economic Association, vol. 23(2), pages 62-72, Autumn.
    4. Marja-Liisa Halko & Klaus Kultti & Juha Virrankoski, 2005. "Wage Distribution with a Two-Sided Job Auction," 2005 Meeting Papers 518, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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