Heterogeneous Price Information and the Effect of Competition
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Gasoline prices; Imperfect information; Number of firms; Price distribution;All these keywords.
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- L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2009-06-17 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2009-06-17 (Industrial Organization)
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