Oligopolistic pricing with online search

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 111-142

  Xu, Lizhen ^a   Chen, Jianqing ^b   Whinston, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

local competition; oligopolistic competition; online search; price dispersion; pricing

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; GAME THEORY; ONLINE SEARCHING;

EQUILIBRIUM PRICING; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; INSPECTION COSTS; OLIGOPOLISTIC COMPETITION; PRICE COMPETITION; PRICE DISPERSION; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SIMILAR PATTERN;

COSTS;

EID: 79951864473     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222270305     Document Type: Article

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