Arbeitspapier

Price competition and limited attention

The paper develops a model of price competition in presence of consumers with limited attention. Education and obfuscation marketing strategies are studied. It is shown that firms in highly competitive industries have incentives to obfuscate, but firms in low competitive industries have not.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Economics Discussion Papers ; No. 2017-89

Classification
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Theory
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Subject
bounded rationality
hotelling linear city model
consideration set
limited attention
unawareness

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Karpov, Aleksandr
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(where)
Kiel
(when)
2017

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Karpov, Aleksandr
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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