We present an oligopoly model where a certain fraction of consumers engage in costly non-sequential search to discover … prices. There are three distinct price dispersed equilibria characterized by low, moderate and high search intensity … equilibrium consumers' search intensity, and(ii) to the status quo number of firms.For instance, when consumers search with low …

We present an oligopoly model where a certain fraction of consumers engage in costly non-sequential search to discover … prices. There are three distinct price dispersed equilibria characterized by low, moderate and high search intensity … equilibrium consumers' search intensity, and(ii) to the status quo number of firms.For instance, when consumers search with low …