Are prices 'sticky' online? Market structure effects and asymmetric responses to cost shocks in online mortgage markets

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1443-1462

  Arbatskaya, Maria ^a   Baye, Michael R ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortgage rate; Price adjustment; Price dispersion; Price rigidity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

MORTGAGE RATE; PRICE ADJUSTMENT; PRICE DISPERSION; PRICE RIGIDITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 15844383813     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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