Consumer Search Ability, Price Dispersion and the Digital Divide
, 2017 The ‘digital divide’ in online activities is believed to arise from differences in Internet access, but this paper advances an alternative explanation that is related to consumer search ability.
Stephen McDonald, C. Wren
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An Automatic Approach to Extending the Consumer Health Vocabulary
Journal of Data and Information Science, 2020 Given the ubiquitous presence of the internet in our lives, many individuals turn to the web for medical information. A challenge here is that many laypersons (as “consumers”) do not use professional terms found in the medical nomenclature when ...
Monselise Michal +7 more
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Belanja on-line mahasiswa di era pandemi covid-19: modifikasi perilaku konsumen
Islamic Communication Journal, 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has changed students consumer behavior from offline to online. The problem in this research is how students’ consumer behavior in online shopping in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the modification of consumer behavior due to ...
Prahastiwi Utari +3 more
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Consumer Search and Oligopolistic Pricing: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricing and consumer search. The theoretical model allows for sequential and non-sequential search and, using the theoretical restrictions firm and consumer behavior impose on the data, we study ...
José Luis Moraga-González +2 more
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Can personalized digital counseling improve consumer search for modern contraceptive methods? [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2023 Athey S +6 more
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Consumer Search and Double Marginalization
, 2015 The well-known double marginalization problem understates the inefficiencies arising from vertical relations in consumer search markets where consumers are uninformed about the wholesale prices charged by manufacturers to retailers.
M. Janssen, Sandro Shelegia
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Learning while shopping: an experimental investigation into the effect of learning on consumer search. [PDF]
Exp Econ, 2021 Casner B.
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Consumer Search and Information Intermediaries [PDF]
In this paper we model the market for a homogeneous good and examine the role of information in determining market outcomes. Unlike in Baye and Morgan (2001) where consumers can only learn about the prices charged by different firms by subscribing to an ...
C. Robert Clark +2 more
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Estimation of Search 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 nd
Giulietti, Monica +2 more
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Dynamically variable step search motion estimation algorithm and a dynamically reconfigurable hardware for its implementation [PDF]
, 2009 Motion Estimation (ME) is the most computationally intensive part of video compression and video enhancement systems. For the recently available High Definition (HD) video formats, the computational complexity of De full search (FS) ME algorithm is ...
Akın, Abdulkadir +7 more
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