Price Search in a Product Market

Abstract

Regressions using panel data on grocery purchases show lower purchase costs are significantly associated with a larger number of stores visited per week. There is also evidence, but somewhat weaker, of diminishing gains from such search. An economic model of the determinants of search suggests that prices paid, quantities purchased, and number of store visits are interrelated, a view supported by results of estimating a proposed simultaneous-equations model.

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