Unraveling of information: Competition and uncertainty

Topics in Theoretical Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Stivers, Andrew E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Information disclosure; Information revelation; Quality uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844366378     PISSN: 1534598X     EISSN: 1534598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-598X.1151     Document Type: Article

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