Equilibrium price dispersion with heterogeneous searchers

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 645-654

  Chen, Yongmin ^a   Zhang, Tianle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Price dispersion; Search; Search cost

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; EQUILIBRIUM PRICE; LOCAL SEARCHER; MARKET OUTCOMES; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTIMAL RESERVATION PRICE; PRICE DISPERSION; PRICE INFORMATION; RESERVATION PRICE; SEARCH; SEARCH COSTS;

DISPERSIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

COSTS;

EID: 80054709032     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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