Setting price or quantity: Depends on what the seller is more uncertain about
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Keywords
Demand uncertainty; Setting price; Setting quantity; Auctions; Posted prices; M31; D81;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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