• Title of article

    Market transparency and product differentiation

  • Author/Authors

    Christian Schultz، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    173
  • To page
    178
  • Abstract
    In a Hotelling market with endogenous choice of product characteristics increasing market transparency on the consumer side leads to less product differentiation, and lower prices and profits. This is welfare improving for all consumers and total surplus increases
  • Keywords
    Market transparency , Product differentiation , Competition policy
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435403