On the Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search
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This paper studies the identification of the costs of simultaneous search in portfolio problems (Chade and Smith, 2006). We show that market shares data from a single market do not provide sufficient information to identify the search cost distribution in any interval, even if utilityDownload Info
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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 10-066/1.Length:
Date of creation: 13 Jul 2010
Date of revision: 12 May 2011
Handle: RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20100066
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Keywords: search costs; portfolio choice; non-parametric identification; logit demand;Other versions of this item:
- Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose L. & Sandor, Zsolt & Wildenbeest, Matthijs R., 2010. "On the identification of the costs of simultaneous search," IESE Research Papers D/867, IESE Business School.
- Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez & Zsolt Sandor & Matthijs R. Wildenbeest, 2010. "On the Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search," Working Papers 2010-10, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy.
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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- NEP-ALL-2011-02-26 (All new papers)
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