The Economics of Search

1. Introduction 2. Mathematical Methods 3. The History and Evolution of Sequential Analysis 4. The Basic Sequential Search Model and its Ramifications 5. Estimation Methods for Duration Models 6. Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance and Sequential Job Search 7. Job Search in a Dynamic Economy 8. Expected Utility Maximizing Job Search 9. Multi-armed Bandits and their Economic Applications 10. A Sample of Early Response to Diamond's Paradox and Rothschild's Complaint 11. Equilibrium Search after the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides Breakthrough 12. Structural Estimation Methods 13. The Ubiquity of Search 14. Topics for Further Inquiry