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in the US airline industry. Our results are based on the estimation of a dynamic oligopoly game of network competition …
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Firms simultaneously set prices in a homogeneous-product market where uninformed consumers search for price information. Some uninformed consumers are local searchers who visit only one seller, possibly due to high search costs or bounded rationality; whereas others search sequentially with an...
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This paper presents an ordered search model in which consumers search both for price and product fitness. We show that there is price dispersion in equilibrium and prices rise in the order of search. The top firms in consumer search order, though charge lower prices, earn higher profits due to...
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of spatial competition. The results of this study are easily interpreted and compared with a past analysis. We find that …
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This paper proposes a model in which identical sellers of a homogenous product compete in both prices and price frames (i.e., ways to present price information). We model price framing by assuming that firms’ frame choices affect the comparability of their price offers: consumers may fail to...
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This paper considers a dynamic model of price competition in which sellers are endowed with one unit of the good and …
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of spatial competition. The results of this study are easily interpreted and compared with a past analysis. We find that …
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distribution. The theory suggests that in a free market competition between products is ultimately the origin of the uneven income …
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offer. We study how the strength of competition among sellers affects the ability of sellers of high quality goods to … strategic price setting sellers and a large number of buyers. When competition among sellers is weak high quality sellers are … able to use prices as a signaling device and this enables them to trade. By contrast, strong competition among sellers …
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This paper investigates the nature of day-to-day competition between flights using a unique panel data set on prices …
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