Sorting and decentralized price competition

Econometrica

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 539-574

  Eeckhout, Jan ^a,b   Kircher, Philipp ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive search equilibrium; Complementarity; Decentralized price competition; Directed search; Root supermodularity; Sorting; Two sided matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953361458     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA7953     Document Type: Article

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