Let pm be the monopoly price and p* be the competitive price. Initially, there are many souvenir shops, each of which charges Pm (because consumers do not know the shops' prices), and buyers' search costs are c. If the government pays for half of consumers' search costs, can there be a single-price equilibrium at a price less than Pm? Show that the argument we used to reject a single-price equilibrium at any price except the monopoly price did not depend on the size of the search cost. Consider a deviant firm, where all other firms charge a single price (any single price) p where p*sp

Let pm be the monopoly price and p* be the competitive price. Initially, there are many souvenir shops, each of which charges Pm (because consumers do not know the shops' prices), and buyers' search costs are c. If the government pays for half of consumers' search costs, can there be a single-price equilibrium at a price less than Pm? Show that the argument we used to reject a single-price equilibrium at any price except the monopoly price did not depend on the size of the search cost. Consider a deviant firm, where all other firms charge a single price (any single price) p where p*sp

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