Prominence and Consumer Search.

This paper examines the implications of "prominence" in search markets. We model prominence by supposing that the prominent firm will be sampled first by all consumers. If there are no systematic quality differences among firms, we find that the prominent firm will charge a lower price tha...

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Main Authors: Armstrong, M, Vickers, J, Zhou, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2008