12-017/1 - Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition

• Authors
  Jose L. Moraga-Gonzalez, VU University Amsterdam; Vaiva Petrikaite, University of Groningen
• Publication date
  February 21, 2012

• Keywords
  mergers, insiders, outsiders, short-run, long-run, consumer search, demand-side economies, economies of search, order of search, sequential search, prominence
• JEL
  D40, D83, L13