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No data? No problem! A Search-based Recommendation System with Cold Starts [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Recommendation systems are essential ingredients in producing matches between products and buyers. Despite their ubiquity, they face two important challenges. First, they are data-intensive, a feature that precludes sophisticated recommendations by some types of sellers, including those selling durable goods.
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Estimate of Search Cost Frictions in the British Electricity Market [PDF]

This paper studies consumer search and pricing behaviour in the British domestic electricity market following its opening to competition in 1999. We develop a sequential search model in which an incumbent and an entrant group compete for consumers who ...
Matthijs R. Wildenbeest, Michael Waterson, Monica Giulietti   +2 more
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Consumer protection and the incentive to become informed [PDF]

We discuss the impact of consumer protection policies on consumer incentives to become informed of the best deals available in the market. In a market with costly consumer search, we find that imposing a cap on suppliers' prices reduces the incentive to ...
Armstrong, Mark, Vickers, John, Zhou, Jidong   +2 more
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Doing Less for More: Consumer Search and Undertreatment in Credence Service Markets [PDF]

arXiv
In many service markets, expert providers possess an information advantage over consumers regarding the necessary services, creating opportunities for fraudulent practices. These may involve overtreatment through unnecessary services or undertreatment with ineffective solutions that fail to address consumers' problems.
arxiv  

A Centralised Cloud Services Repository (CCSR) Framework for Optimal Cloud Service Advertisement Discovery From Heterogenous Web Portals

IEEE Access, 2019
A cloud service marketplace is the first point for a consumer to discovery, select and possible composition of different services. Although there are some private cloud service marketplaces, such as Microsoft Azure, that allow consumers to search service
Asma Musabah Alkalbani, Walayat Hussain, Jung Yoon Kim   +2 more
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Computational models of consumer confidence from large-scale online attention data: crowd-sourcing econometrics [PDF]

, 2014
Economies are instances of complex socio-technical systems that are shaped by the interactions of large numbers of individuals. The individual behavior and decision-making of consumer agents is determined by complex psychological dynamics that include ...
Bollen, Johan, Dong, Xianlei
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Involving the 'consumer' in the evaluation of dental care: a philosophy in search of data [PDF]

, 2001
Tim Newton
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Optimal Search and Discovery [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
This paper studies a search problem where a consumer is initially aware of only a few products. At every point in time, the consumer then decides between searching among alternatives he is already aware of and discovering more products. I show that the optimal policy for this search and discovery problem is fully characterized by tractable reservation ...
arxiv  

Effects of Consumer Search Behavior Typology on the Relationship Between Customer Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions

The South East Asian Journal of Management, 2007
The author investigates how consumer search behavior typology affects the relationship between customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions. The results show that the type of consumer as defined by whether and how they search for information (passive,
Wahyuningsih
doaj  

WELFARE EFFECTS OF ECO-LABEL PROLIFERATION: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? [PDF]

Given that existing food eco-labels are still not well defined in consumers' experience, there is potential for new labels to generate more confusion. Consumers incur fixed costs to learn about a label's meaning. Market shares for existing certifications
Lohr, Luanne
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