Bargaining, search, and price dispersion: Evidence from the live hogs market

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 534-546

  Vukina, Tomislav ^a   Zheng, Xiaoyong ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Bargaining theory; Intra day price dispersion; Search cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960929926     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500007498     Document Type: Article

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