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Price Levels And Dispersion With Asymmetric Information, Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Price Levels And Dispersion With Asymmetric Information, Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
In the extensive literature on price dispersions that exists to date, there is a gap in the analysis of how market structure affects prices as well as the degree of dispersion in prices. Specifically, the literature is deficient in analyzing how price levels and price dispersion are affected by the number of firms operating in a market. I use secondary data to look at the prices of prescription drugs at the retail level in nine hundred and seventy pharmacies across one hundred and sixty five markets in Maryland and compare price dispersion across these brick and mortar pharmacies as well …