This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random … which neither affect expected utility norits variance. These changes have a great impact on the search behaviour …:the customer may start to search the characteristics and buy the goodeven if she did not do so before. The optimal search rule is …

. If two agents search simultaneously, the incentive tocontinue searching is affected by the information found by theother … agent. This forces the principal to leave rents to theagents. If agents search sequentially, the reward can be …

search. When searchable information is limited, an agent encounters increasingly more redundant information in his search for … agents search for information from the same source, limited searchability leads to covariance as the acquired information …

We examine data on capital-gains-tax-related information search to determine when and how taxpayers acquire information …. We find seasonal increases in information search around tax deadlines, suggesting that taxpayers seek information to … comply with tax law. Positive correlations between stock market activity and search as well as year-end spikes in information …

This paper provides a search-based information acquisition framework using an urn model with an asymptotic approach …. The underlying intuition of the model is simple: when the scope of information search is more limited, marginal search …

aggregator involves a tradeoff between imperfect information and search cost reduction, and this may not always be welfare …

information. We find strong seasonal increases in information search around tax filing deadlines, suggesting that taxpayers seek … information to comply with tax law. Positive correlations between stock market activity and information search and year-end spikes … in information search on capital losses suggest that taxpayers seek information for tax planning purposes. Policy changes …