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existence and location of their previous supplier. New information is gathered via search or word-of-mouth communication. Market …
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existence and location of their previous supplier. New information is gathered via search or word-of-mouth communication. Market …
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We analyze dynamic price competition in a homogeneous goods duopoly, where consumers exchange information via word-of-mouth communication. A fraction of consumers, who do not learn any new information, remain locked-in at their previous supplier in each period. We analyze Markov perfect...
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We analyze dynamic price competition in a homogeneous goods duopoly, where consumers exchange information via word-of-mouth communication. A fraction of consumers, who do not learn any new information, remain locked-in at their previous supplier in each period. We analyze Markov perfect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049782
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446819
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916675
due to imperfect information and costly household search. The interaction of heterogeneous knowledge, research investment …, revenues, and search outcomes across agents endogenously generates the empirically observed but seemingly idiosyncratic Pareto …
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proportion of low search cost consumers increases. …
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