@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010142, author = {MINAGAWA, Tadashi and KAWAI, Shin}, issue = {145}, journal = {Economic Research Center Discussion Paper}, month = {Aug}, note = {This paper explains price movements countercyclical to business cycles in an atomistic market. A recession makes a portion of low-income consumers leave the market and the fraction of low-price stores decreases. Thus, the remaining consumers' reservation prices for storage increase and consequently low-price stores charge higher prices, and vice versa. It is also shown that the equilibrium is characterized as a symmetric mixed strategy Nash equilibrium.}, title = {CYCLICAL PRICE MOVEMENTS IN AN ATOMISTIC MARKET}, year = {2003} }