Search and Consumer Theory
消费者面对商品标价,但可以折扣购买,折扣随机变化。搜寻报价次数取决于标价、搜寻成本和财富,论文分析了这些因素如何影响搜寻行为,并推广了斯卢茨基方程以包含搜寻。
A consumer faces list prices for commodities, but can buy one at a discount. Discounts vary randomly between sellers. The number of quotations sought depends on list prices, search costs and wealth. This function is homogeneous of degree zero, and, provided some sufficient conditions are satisfied, is; increasing in wealth; decreasing in search cost; independent of the list price of the discounted commodity if indirect utility is multiplicatively separable; increasing in the list price if the commodity is a necessity; increasing in the list price of substitutes. Slutsky's equation is generalized to include search.