Search

Showing 16,541-16,560 of 18,032 items.

Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development

By Bernhard Ganglmair, Timothy Simcoe, and Emanuele Tarantino

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2025

Using data from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a voluntary organization that develops protocols for managing internet infrastructure, we estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of the decision to continue or abandon a line of research. The m...

Competition and Defaults in Online Search

By Francesco Decarolis, Muxin Li, and Filippo Paternollo

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2025

This paper offers the first systematic quantitative assessment of default-option interventions designed to mitigate Google's search dominance. By analyzing interventions in the European Economic Area (EEA), Russia, and Turkey, we find that across all thre...

Unraveling and Inefficient Matching

By Akhil Vohra

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2025

Labor markets unravel when workers and firms match inefficiently early under limited information. I argue that a significant determinant of unraveling is the presence of a secondary market, where firms can poach workers, and its transparency: how well fir...