Prices and Qualities in Markets with Costly Information

DOI10.2307/2297283zbMath0491.90014OpenAlexW2088502754MaRDI QIDQ3953508

Hayne E. Leland, Yuk-shee Chan

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297283

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium analysiscostly informationprice advertisingprice/quality information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24) General equilibrium theory (91B50)

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