betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …

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 …

consumer search in electronic markets. In conventional markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer … electronic markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer’s mental awareness of different retailers … — and this awareness is likely to be concentrated in the hands of a few retailers.Based on this model of consumer search, IT …

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 …

This note presents an ordered search model in which consumers search both for price and product fitness. We construct … an equilibrium in which there is price dispersion and prices rise in the order of search. The top firms in consumer … search process, though charge lower prices, earn higher profits due to their larger market shares. …