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E-Consumers’ Search and Emerging Structure of Web-Sites Coalitions
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This article summarizes the main results we obtained in an agent-based extension of an industrial organization analytical model4 for studying emerging coalition structures in electronic markets.
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Market Structure Coalition Formation Search Cost Coalition Structure Price Adjustment
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