is used by individual proposers who search for co-travelers to share the ride with shortly before the train departure …. The bargaining behavior resembles the Ultimatum game to the extent that proposers request a fixed price for a shared ride … positions of the bargaining parties are hardly symmetric and the formation of the full group is not guaranteed. Using a simple …

We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany’s electricity retail. We … utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a … direct measure of search intensity and combine this information with zip code level data on electricity tariffs between 2011 …

We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German … electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent … baseline rate while entrants decrease their tariffs if consumer search increases. Moreover, the incumbent price discriminates …

is used by individual proposers who search for co-travelers to share the ride with shortly before the train departure …. The bargaining behavior resembles the Ultimatum game to the extent that proposers request a fixed price for a shared ride … positions of the bargaining parties are hardly symmetric and the formation of the full group is not guaranteed. Using a simple …

This paper theoretically investigates the strategic implications of varying reliability of bargaining partners under …