Market transparency and consumer search—Evidence from the German retail gasoline market.

We estimate a model of incomplete information price competition where consumers endogenously choose whether to use a price search website. We examine how consumer search and prices would change under different transparency regimes. We find that aggregate consumer welfare is maximized when the price...

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Publicado en:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 573 - 603
Autor principal: Martin, Simon
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2024
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