Search and Ripoff Externalities
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- Mark Armstrong, 2015. "Search and Ripoff Externalities," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 47(3), pages 273-302, November.
- Armstrong, Mark, 2015. "Search and ripoff externalities," MPRA Paper 62012, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Keywords
Consumer protection; consumer search; price dispersion; hold-up; add-on pricing.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D18 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Protection
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- M3 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2014-08-28 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-MKT-2014-08-28 (Marketing)
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