Monopoly pricing in the binary herding model

Economic Theory

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-241

  Bose, Subir ^a   Orosel, Gerhard ^b   Ottaviani, Marco ^c   Vesterlund, Lise ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary signal; Herd behavior; Informational cascade; Monopoly; Public information; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249108546     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0313-9     Document Type: Article

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