Product Differentiation, Search Costs, and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of S&P 500 Index Funds

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Quarterly Journal of Economics

• Publication date

  2004-05-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1162/0033553041382184
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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