Competition and Consumer Confusion
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Keywords
bounded rationality; complexity; confusion; extreme value theory; discrete choice; profit; behavioral economics; behavioral industrial organization; mutual fund; industry; consumer protection;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D00 - Microeconomics - - General - - - General
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2004-08-16 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-COM-2004-08-16 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-DCM-2004-08-16 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-MIC-2004-08-16 (Microeconomics)
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