The purpose of this research is to study and analyze the problems,obstacles and labor qualities of temporary markets of Tehran in holidays. The research method is documentary, survey and field-work andsampling method is related to cluster and systematic one. The population ischosen from all customers and sellers in temporary markets. In this research, it uses of Amos 5 and SPSS16 soft wares and...

In this paper we provide experimental evidence for the importance of reputation in markets with experience goods. In this type of markets high quality cannot be enforced by complete and enforceable contracts. This leads to low efficiency or even the breakdown of markets. A potential remedy to overcome these inefficiencies is reputation formation. In order to study the causal effect of reputatio...

This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We find that the degree of the platform’s belief advantage affects its decision regarding the business model (i.e., whether to subs...

In this paper a market where a buyer (job seeker) is searching in a known order among sellers (e.g. a motorist driving along a road looking for gasoline) is described. Both sellers and buyers are assumed to behave strategically. There are many types of buyers. The sellers know only the distribution of all possible buyers; similarly, buyers have imperfect information about sellers. The analysis ...

Price-matching guarantees are commonly used by sellers as promises to match the lowest price for an item that a customer can find elsewhere. n this paper, we use a market experiment approach to examine buyer search as well as sellers’ pricing decisions in the presence versus absence of rice-Matching Guarantees. We use student subjects as well as real consumers in an interactive laboratory setti...

Geographically dispersed sellers in electronic reverse-marketplaces such as those hosted by Freemarkets are uncertain about the number of competitors they face in any given market-session. Over the course of several market-sessions they learn about the competitive nature of the marketplace. How sellers learn to reduce the market-structure uncertainty depends on the market-transparency scheme, o...

I measure price dispersion among differentiated retail gasoline sellers and study the relationship between dispersion and the local competitive environment. Significant price dispersion exists even after controlling for differences in station characteristics, and price differences between sellers change frequently. The extent of price dispersion is related to the density of local competition, b...