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Consumer disutility from assorted referrals in diagnostics services

Bag, Dinabandhu - In: South Asia economic journal : journal of the Institute … 24 (2023) 1, pp. 64-77

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Identification and estimation of dynamic structural models with unobserved choices

Hu, Yingyao; Xin, Yi - 2020

This paper develops identification and estimation methods for dynamic structural models when agents' actions are unobserved by econometricians. We provide conditions under which choice probabilities and latent state transition rules are nonparametrically identified with a continuous state...

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A Fraudulent Expert and Short-Lived Customers

Ozyurt, Selcuk - 2016

reputation for honesty, so then he defrauds his customers to achieve a higher payoff. In equilibrium, deception for a long period …

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Health Shocks, Credit Scores, and Strategic Behavior with Credit Cards

Bonca, Bogdan - 2012

The paper solves a puzzle related to unsecured credit and the use of credit scores. With credit scores increasingly present in credit decisions, and with the increased use of credit cards, especially in categories at risk of large negative health shocks, asymmetry of information between banks...

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Dynamic Pricing Under Social Learning with Strategic Consumers

Bhalla, Manaswini - 2014

A monopolist uses prices as an instrument to influence consumers' belief about the unknown quality of its product. Consumers observe prices and sales in earlier periods to learn about the product. Every period they decide whether to consume the product or to wait for a lower price in future. We...

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Information nudges and self-control

Mariotti, Thomas; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora; … - 2018

We study the optimal design of information nudges for present-biased consumers who have to make sequential consumption decisions without exact prior knowledge of their long-term consequences. For arbitrary distributions of risk, there exists a consumer-optimal information nudge that is of cutoff...

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Information nudges and self-control

Mariotti, Thomas; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora; … - 2018

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To Hinder or to Facilitate : Retailers' Strategy of Consumer Information Sharing and Target Segment

Ma, Buqing; Li, Guang; Kong, Guangwen - 2021

Motivated by the phenomenon that some retailers with high-end brand images, such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, prefer to hinder consumers from sharing information through online reviews, we study an online retailer's strategy of hindering or facilitating consumer information sharing in...

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Supplier Surfing : Competition and Consumer Behavior in Subscription Markets

Taylor, Curtis R. - 2008

suppliers in order to establish a reputation as a switcher, thereby securing better future price offers …

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Maintaining vs. Milking Good Reputation When Customer Feedback is Inaccurate

Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2017

behavior a reputation system is particularly important to reduce information asymmetries about the quality of the offered … product or service. In this study we examine the effectiveness of a reputation system to reduce information asymmetries when … choices and short-lived customers are asked to evaluate the observed quality by providing ratings to a reputation system. The …

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