COSTLY BUYER SEARCH IN LABORATORY MARKETS WITH SELLER ADVERTISING -super-*
Abstract
In this experiment, sellers simultaneously choose prices and advertising strategies. Buyers either purchase at an advertised price or search sequentially for other prices. In the unique symmetric equilibrium, sellers charge a high unadvertised price or advertise a price chosen from a lower interval. Increases in search or advertising costs raise equilibrium prices and affect equilibrium advertising intensity. Empirical results are consistent with most comparative static predictions. Sellers, however, price much lower and advertise more intensely than predicted. Consequently, market outcomes more closely resemble a perfect information, Bertrand-like equilibrium than the imperfect information, mixed strategy equilibrium with significant seller market power. Copyright 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. and the Editorial Board of The Journal of Industrial Economics.Download Info
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Volume (Year): 58 (2010)
Issue (Month): 2 (06)
Pages: 424-449
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- Ralph-C Bayer & Changxia Ke, 2011.
"Discounts and Consumer Search Behavior: The Role of Framing,"
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discounts_and_consumer_se, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
- Ralph-C Bayer & Changxia Ke, 2010. "Discounts and Consumer Search Behavior: The Role of Framing," School of Economics Working Papers 2010-21, University of Adelaide, School of Economics.
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