Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Econometrica

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1823-1862

  Guerrieri, Veronica ^a   Shimer, Robert ^b   Wright, Randall ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Contracts; Information; Matching; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650070251     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8535     Document Type: Article

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