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Economic Definition of efficient search. Defined.

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Term efficient search Definition: Decreasing marginal search benefit and increasing marginal search cost suggest that the most efficient search lies somewhere between zero effort and complete information. The most efficient level of search effort is given by the equality of marginal search benefit and marginal search cost.

 

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