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Consumer search and oligopolistic pricing : an empirical investigation

Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2004

This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricing and consumer search. The theoretical model allows for sequential and non-sequential search and, using the theoretical restrictions firm and consumer behavior impose on the data, we study the empirical validity of the models. Two...

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Nonparametric Estimation of the Costs of Non-Sequential Search

Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Sandor, Zsolt; Wildenbeest, … - 2008

We study a consumer non-sequential search oligopoly model with search cost heterogeneity. We first prove that an equilibrium in mixed strategies always exists. We then examine the nonparametric identification and estimation of the costs of search. We find that the sequence of points on the...

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Consumer Search and Oligopolistic Pricing: An Empirical Investigation

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2004

This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricingand consumer search. The theoretical model allows for sequential andnon-sequential search and using the theoretical restrictions firm andconsumer behavior impose on the data we study the empirical validity of themodels. Two...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325459

Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition

Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose L.; Petrikaite, Vaiva - 2012

This paper studies the incentives to merge in a Bertrand competition model where firms sell differentiatedproducts and consumers search for satisfactory deals. In the pre-merger symmetricequilibrium, the probability that a firm is the next one to be visited by a consumer is equal acrossfirms not...

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Merger control in differentiated product industries

Mariuzzo, Franco; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2005

Thresholds defined on the level and change in the HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index) applied to market shares seem to be the main instrument to select notified mergers for investigation in both the EU and US. We question the use of such a selection rule in differentiated products industries. We...

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Price response, asymmetric information, and competition

Sherman, Joshua; Weiss, Avi - 2012

We compare predictions from a theoretical model based on the structure of the main outdoor retail market in Jerusalem with the results of an empirical analysis of price response to changes in cost. We find that firms without adjacent competition exhibit both upward and downward price rigidity,...

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Advertising and Consumer Search in a Duopoly Model

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Non, Mariëlle C. - 2005

We consider a duopoly in a homogenous goods market where part of the consumers are ex ante uninformed about prices. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following results. First, there is no monotone relationship...

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On The Relevance Of Irrelevant Information

Parakhonyak, Alexei - 2009

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random attributes with somejoint probability distribution. I consider seemingly unimportant changesin this distribution, i.e. changes which neither affect expected utility norits variance....

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Advertising for Attention in a Consumer Search Model

Haan, Marco A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis - 2009

We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firm whose advertising is more salient. The gains a firm derives from being visited early increase in search costs, so equilibrium advertising increases as search costs rise. This may result in lower firm profits...

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Preference for variety

Kaiser, Karen; Schwabe, Rainer - 2011

propose testable axioms which characterize preference for variety, and provide a representation theorem. We go on to … illustrate the potential effects of preference for variety in a model of retailing. Consumer welfare may be decreasing in the … competitiveness of the retailing sector as competition eliminates the scope for retailers to offer variety. Mainstream consumers with …

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