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Consumer search in the U.S. auto industry: The role of dealership visits [PDF]
Quant Mark Econ, 2020 In many markets, consumers visit stores and physically inspect products before making purchase decisions. We view the inspection of a product at a retail location as a search for product fit.
Yavorsky D, Honka E, Chen K.
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A systematic review of consumer information search in online and offline environments [PDF]
RAUSP Management Journal, 2021 Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify major themes and potential research opportunities in online and offline consumer search. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic review was conducted based on 118 articles identified from prevalent ...
Anu C. Haridasan +2 more
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Product Quality and Consumer Search [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023 An increase in quality shifts up the distribution of match utilities offered by firms and makes consumers pickier. The number of products that consumers inspect does not necessarily increase in quality.
José L. Moraga‐González, Yajie Sun
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Demographic variation in active consumer behaviour: On-line search for retail broadband services [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Consumers who actively search for better broadband deals may benefit from lower prices or improved service quality compared to those who do not. If, however, consumers differ in their propensity to engage with the market and actively search, these ...
Philip Carthy, Peter D. Lunn, Sean Lyons
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Consumer Search on the Internet [PDF]
, 2008 This paper uses consumer search data to explain search frictions in online markets, within the context of an equilibrium search model. I use a novel dataset of consumer online browsing and purchasing behavior, which tracks all consumer search prior to ...
De los Santos, Babur I. - Indiana University
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Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market [PDF]
The Review of Economic Studies, 2015 This paper develops a discrete choice model of demand with optimal sequential consumer search. Consumers first choose a product to search; then, once they learn the utility they get from the searched product, they choose whether to buy it or to keep ...
José L. Moraga‐González +2 more
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A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
, 2020 We state a sufficient condition under which choice data alone suffices to identify consumer preferences when choices are not fully informed. Suppose that: (i) the data generating process is a search model in which the attribute hidden to consumers is ...
Jason Abaluck, Giovanni Compiani
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Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search
The American Economic Review, 2016 We present a new equilibrium search model where consumers initially search among discount opportunities, but are willing to pay more as a deadline approaches, eventually turning to full-price sellers.
Dominic Coey +2 more
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Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Marketing [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Learning customer preferences from an observed behaviour is an important topic in the marketing literature. Structural models typically model forward-looking customers or firms as utility-maximizing agents whose utility is estimated using methods of ...
Halperin, Igor
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Platform search design with heterogeneous consumers
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsDigital platforms facilitate interactions between buyers and sellers. This study examines intermediary shopping platforms’ strategic search designs and their effects by incorporating consumer behaviors.
Junbao Li, Chengying He, Zhanzhong Shi
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