Strategic Limitation of Market Accessibility: Search Platform Design and Welfare
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- Teh, Christopher & Wang, Chengsi & Watanabe, Makoto, 2024. "Strategic limitation of market accessibility: Search platform design and welfare," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 216(C).
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Keywords
meeting technology; directed search; platform; intermediation; accessibility JEL Classification: D83; J64; M37;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- M37 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Advertising
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2023-04-24 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-MIC-2023-04-24 (Microeconomics)
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