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Acemoglu, Daron; Makhdoumi, Ali; Malekian, Azarakhsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness,' which captures attributes that make products appear more attractive than they...

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You Can Lead a Horse to Water : Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search

Hodgson, Charles; Lewis, Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop and estimate a model of consumer search with spatial learning. Consumers make inferences from previously searched objects to unsearched objects that are nearby in attribute space, generating path dependence in search sequences. The estimated model rationalizes patterns in data on...

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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Ellison, Glenn - 2006

Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from online retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...

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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

Dinerstein, Michael - 2014

Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...

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Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search : A Field Experiment

Fang, Lu; Chen, Yanyou; Farronato, Chiara; Yuan, Zhe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing behavior. We collaborate...

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Returns to Consumer Search : Evidence from eBay

Blake, Thomas - 2016

consumer search on the internet. The extensive nature of the eBay data allows us to examine a rich and detailed set of …

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Consumer Demand with Social Influences : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform

Caoui, El Hadi; Farronato, Chiara; Horton, John J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

For some kinds of goods, rarity itself is valued. "Fashionable'" goods are demanded in part because they are unique. In this paper, we explore the economics of rare goods using auctions of limited-edition shoes held by an e-commerce platform. We model endogenous entry and bidding in multi-unit...

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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

Morton, Fiona Scott - 2001

Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …

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Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets

Einav, Liran - 2011

The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …

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