A SEARCH MODEL WHERE CONSUMERS CHOOSE QUANTITY BASED ON EXPECTATED PRICE

I describe a price game in which consumers face search costs and base their quantity decision on the expected price. Because of search costs, the choice of the firm they will buy from is described by a random process. I shown that the expected equilibrium price is above the monopoly price. This resu...

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Published inThe Journal of industrial economics Vol. 51; no. 4; p. 427
Main Author Buccirossi, Paolo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2003
Subjects
Costs
Economic theory
Game theory
Prices
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Summary:I describe a price game in which consumers face search costs and base their quantity decision on the expected price. Because of search costs, the choice of the firm they will buy from is described by a random process. I shown that the expected equilibrium price is above the monopoly price. This result does not change if demand comes form a small share of perfectly informed consumers with zero search costs. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0022-1821
1467-6451