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Equilibrium Price Distributions

Rafael Rob1,2

1 California University of Pennsylvania · 2 University of Pennsylvania

Review of Economic Studies 1985 open access

Equilibrium price distributions (for a homogeneous product) consistent with individual incentives are investigated. They arise in informationally imperfect markets in which the only primitive datum is the distribution of search costs. It is shown that single, multi- and continuous price distributions are all viable long-run phenomena depending on the nature of search costs. A method for computing equilibrium price distributions is also provided.

DOI
10.2307/2297666
Volume
52 (3)
Pages
487
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