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Accounting for Taste: Consumer Valuations for Food-Safety Technologies
... average consumer is willing to pay an equivalent amount for both oyster ...blind taste test, difference-in-differences tests suggest that three of the four processing technologies degrade the taste ...
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Decomposing firm-product appeal: how important is consumer taste?
... product i that the firm exports to other ...product i of the firm are independent across destination countries which then ensures that our instrument is uncorrelated to the error ...
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Consumer Search on the Internet
... 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 ...
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Ordered Consumer Search
... to search for a better ...sometimes search through options in the order they are presented, even when there is no obvious information content or di¤erential inspection costs to being placed in certain ...a ...
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Intermediaries and Consumer Search
... 5.2 Search Engine Bias In the simple models we have discussed, a search engine generally has no incentive to direct consumers to products with lower match quality or with higher prices: as an information ...
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The Effects of Consumer Protection on Sales Signs, Consumer Search and Competition
... of search costs. Markets with higher search costs require higher levels of monitoring to break the monopoly pricing equilibrium, while in markets with very high search costs, no amount of monitoring ...
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Price directed Consumer Search
... before we formally characterize the equilibria. First, note that each firm has a positive measure of informed consumers who only match with the product of the firm in ques- tion and can sell to them at a price up to V. ...
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Position Auctions with Consumer Search
... Most of the literature, however, is squarely auction-focused and continues to abstract away from the fact that the “objects” being auctioned are advertisements. 4 We feel that this is an important omission because when ...
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Consumer search and firm growth
... where γ is a non-negative parameter. Each agent is endowed with a flow of ω ∈ N indivisible and non-storable outside goods that provide no utility. There is a continuum of firms owned by the agents who are also ...
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On Mergers in Consumer Search Markets
... To the best of our knowledge this is the first paper on mergers in markets with search frictions. Along the way, we have made a number of simplifying assumptions. For example, we have assumed that consumers know ...
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Experience Goods and Consumer Search
... that search friction is a major source of market power and its reduction generally improves ...how search markets work for “experience” goods, the quality of which can be learned only after ...through ...
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Consumer Search and Information Intermediaries
... lower search costs will necessary bene…t consumers and lead to lower expected prices does not necessarily ...of search on consumer welfare depends on how the information provider reacts to ...
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The Consumer Psychology of Search Behavior
... to search that eventually reach zero, we are guaranteed an interior ...that search in one channel will spillover to another channel, M B ijc / M I ijd … 0 where c … d, we typically expect that within ...
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Embedding Consumer Taste for Location into a Structural Model of Equilibrium
... of consumer tastes for product location on the demand primitives, we simulate the effect of a 1 per cent increase in market coverage (hence changing the consumer taste distributions) on the ...
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Beliefs and Consumer Search in a Vertical Industry
... p i , satisfies p e j = αp ∗ (c ∗ ) + (1 − α)p i for some α ∈ [0, ...a consumer can update her belief only once (after visiting the first firm) making belief formation relatively ...a consumer ...
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Consumer Search in Retail Gasoline Markets
... intertemporal search behavior exists and what form it takes, is important as it helps explain violations of the Law of One Price, price dispersion and sources of market ...identify search behavior. This is ...
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Advertising for attention in a consumer search model
... total consumer surplus decreases because of the price increase of the less efficient ...and search costs outweigh consumer losses and overall welfare increases as advertising cost asymmetries ...
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Geographical Dispersion of Consumer Search Behavior
... of search cost distributions across zip codes, we achieve the estimation for each zip code ...the consumer search model, it assumed that retailers in any zip code play a stationary repeated game of ...
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Consumer Search and Retail Market Structure
... tractable consumer search framework to investigate this ...of consumer search frictions determines whether the equilibrium market structure is symmetric with all multiproduct …rms, or is ...
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Essays on Consumer Search and A+B Auctions
... article, I develop a model in which consumers formulate their prior belief of the current price distribution using the prices observed during past driving trips, and then Bayesian update their beliefs with each ...
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