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Price Dispersion with Directed Search

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Camera, Gabriele
Selcuk, Cemil

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We study a market where identical capacity-constrained sellers compete to attract identical buyers, via price advertisements. Once buyers reach a store, prices might be renegotiable in a manner that is responsive to excess demand. We focus strongly symmetric equilibria, proving their existence and providing explicit solutions for the distributions of advertised and sale prices as functions of market characteristics. Since variations in the posted price can affect the store’s attractiveness and the incidence of haggling, the model endogenizes the ‘pricing convention’ prevailing in the market and generates several empirically testable predictions on market behavior.

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Paper provided by Purdue University, Department of Economics in its series Purdue University Economics Working Papers with number 1173.

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Date of creation: Dec 2004
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Keywords: Directed Search Endogenous Trading Mechanisms Market Frictions Price Dispersion

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D39 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Other
D49 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Other
E39 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Other

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