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Price Heterogeneity as a source of Heterogenous Demand

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  • John K. -H. Quah
  • Gerelt Tserenjigmid

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We explore heterogenous prices as a source of heterogenous or stochastic demand. Heterogenous prices could arise either because there is actual price variation among consumers or because consumers (mis)perceive prices differently. Our main result says the following: if heterogenous prices have a distribution among consumers that is (in a sense) stable across observations, then a model where consumers have a common utility function but face heterogenous prices has precisely the same implications as a heterogenous preference/random utility model (with no price heterogeneity).

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  • John K. -H. Quah & Gerelt Tserenjigmid, 2022. "Price Heterogeneity as a source of Heterogenous Demand," Papers 2201.03784, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2022.
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