Dynamic selection and distributional bounds on search costs in dynamic unit-demand models

This paper develops a dynamic model of consumer search that, despite placing very little structure on the dynamic problem faced by consumers, allows us to exploit intertemporal variation in price distributions to estimate the distribution from which consumer search costs are initially drawn. We show...

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Main Authors: Blevins, J.R (Author), Senney, G.T (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Ltd 2019
Subjects:
C14
C57
D43
D83
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