We study sequential search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" in which a single object is to be selected from a set ofalternatives. Alternatives are inspected in a random order, one at a time, and only the rank order of the current alternative relative to the ones that have already...

We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for the best alternative from a known and finite set of multi-attribute alternatives. In contrast to most previous studies, we make no distributional assumptions about the quality of...