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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Optimal price adjustment under imperfect information
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Amit Bhaduri
  • Josef Falkinger
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title European Economic Review
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0014-2921
Volume 34
Number 5
Page Range 941 - 952
Date 1990
Abstract Text Variations in cost and demand do not have symmetrical impact on the optimal price of the imperfectly competitive firm. This asymmetry is not so important as long as information regarding both cost and demand is sufficient. However, it becomes crucially important in case of incomplete information. Usually firms have more complete or ‘harder’ information on cost than on demand. This difference in information status on the cost and on the demand side can explain both cost-based pricing and slow price adjustment to demand in an optimizing framework with Bayesian learning about changed demand conditions.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/0014-2921(90)90016-R
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