3 papers
econ.TH2026
Competition, Persuasion, and Search
Teddy Mekonnen, Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
How does competition in markets for information affect the creation and division of surplus? We study this question in a search environment in which an agent searches sequentially…
econ.TH2025
How to Segment a Search Market: Information Design and Directed Search
Teddy Mekonnen
This paper examines when the public provision of information in search markets improves welfare. I consider a two-sided frictional search market in which buyers match with vertical…
econ.TH2024
Persuaded Search
Teddy Mekonnen, Zeky Murra-Anton, Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
We consider sequential search by an agent who cannot observe the quality of goods but can acquire information by buying signals from a profit-maximizing principal with limited comm…