The costs of free entry: an empirical study of real estate agents in Greater Boston.

This article studies the consequences of fixed commissions and low entry barriers in Greater Boston's real estate brokerage industry from 1998-2007. We find that agent entry reduces average service quality and use a dynamic empirical model to study the inefficiency in the current market structure. T...

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Publicado en:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 103 - 146
Autores principales: Barwick, Panle Jia, Pathak, Parag A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Spring2015
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