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Search, Moral Hazard, and Price Dispersion [PDF]

We study the effects of insurance coverage on consumer search behavior and the pricing of services covered by insurance, constructing a general equilibrium model of moral hazard in search with an endogenous price distribution.
Brennan C. Platt, S. Nuray Akin
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Price Increases from Online Privacy [PDF]

arXiv, 2001
Consumers value keeping some information about them private from potential marketers. E-commerce dramatically increases the potential for marketers to accumulate otherwise private information about potential customers. Online marketers claim that this information enables them to better market their products.
arxiv  

Ordered Search in Differentiated Markets [PDF]

This paper presents an ordered search model in which consumers search both for price and product fitness. We show that there is price dispersion in equilibrium and prices rise in the order of search.
Zhou, Jidong
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Niche products, generic products, and consumer search [PDF]

We endogenize product differentiation in a model of sequential search with random firm-consumer match value à la Wolinsky (1986) and Anderson and Renault (1999).
Larson, Nathan
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Competitive Information Disclosure with Heterogeneous Consumer Search [PDF]

arXiv
We study a model of competitive information design in an oligopoly search market with heterogeneous consumer search costs. A unique class of equilibria -- upper-censorship equilibria -- emerges under intense competition. In equilibrium, firms balance competitive pressure with local monopoly power granted by search frictions.
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How to make efficient purchase decisions? Proposing a model for consumer efficiency on social media

Cogent Business & Management
Social media platforms have been major channels for consumers to search for product-related information, compare market prices, and consult other experienced buyers. Particularly, social media influencers play a crucial role in consumers’ decision-making
Victoria Y. Chen
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Knowledge base, information search and intention to adopt innovation [PDF]

Innovation is a process that involves searching for new information. This paper builds upon theoretical insights on individual and organizational learning and proposes a knowledge based model of how actors search for information when confronted with ...
Carolina Castaldi, Frank J. van Rijnsoever   +1 more
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The international search for ethics norms: which consumer behaviors do consumers consider (un)acceptable? [PDF]

, 2010
Larry Neale, Sam Fullerton
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Metaverse and Fashion: An Analysis of Consumer Online Interest

Future Internet
Recent studies have demonstrated the value that the Internet and web applications bring to businesses. Among other tools are those that enable the analysis and monitoring of searches, such as Google Trends, which is currently used by the fashion industry
Carmen Ruiz Viñals, Marta Gil Ibáñez, José Luis Del Olmo Arriaga   +2 more
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Forecasting Private Consumption: Survey-based Indicators vs. Google Trends [PDF]

In this study we introduce a new indicator for private consumption based on search query time series provided by Google Trends. The indicator is based on factors extracted from consumption-related search categories of the Google Trends application ...
Simeon Vosen, Torsten Schmidt
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