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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Consumer Search"”.
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Empirical studies of oligopolistic pricing and heterogeneous consumer search
… thesis consists of an examination of the role of consumer search in explaining price patterns in retail markets for prescriptions drugs {Chapters 1 and 2), as well as a separate study of hospital-insurer bargaining in the state of Connecticut (Chapter 3). Chapter 1 seeks to establish the empirical …
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Consumer Search And Switching Behavior: Evidence From The Credit Card Industry
… empirically investigates and analyzes consumers' behavior in the credit card market. Specifically, it investigates the underlying determinants of consumers' choices regarding switching credit-card balances. To estimate the likelihood that consumers switch credit cards, two logit models …
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Consumer Search Behaviour and Adoption of Online Booking of Travel Services in Saudi Arabia
… aim of this study was to investigate current search behaviour among Saudi consumers of travel services, to establish their attitudes towards, and adoption of online search and booking processes. It also aimed to explore current experiences within travel agencies of the adoption of online …
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Consumer Search and Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence From the United States Long-Distance Market
… choice set restrictions based on costly search. I find that cross firm price elasticities for high volume consumers are 87% higher than for low volume consumers based on their lifetime search experience. In addition, it is estimated that, conditional on consumers being fully informed …
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Determinants of Consumer Search and Their Impact of Finding the Lowest Price in a Monopolistically Competitive Market: An Empirical Application to the Prerecorded Music Market
… analyzes how one might differentiate between consumers whose awareness of and responsiveness to price differences is high and those who are relatively unaware buyers.
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… investigates the effect of price dispersion on consumer search behavior, drawing evidence from the retail gasoline market in Greece. The final chapter builds on the second, studying the asymmetric price adjustment and the impact of market competition on the asymmetric price adjustment. The …
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Three essays in economics/
… second chapter contribute to the literature on consumer search, while the third chapter analyzes the e
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Search Frictions in Macroeconomics
This dissertation explores the role of search frictions in macroeconomics and highlights how these frictions influence micro-level decisions which in turn affect aggregated outcomes. Chapter 1 examines how individuals entering the job market during a recession can suffer persistent wage losses. I …
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Essays in economics
… hospitals publish prices, citing the need for consumer search. This paper uses two sources of longitudinal hospital data to evaluate the effects of Web-based price-posting requirements and on-site price-posting requirements on the distribution of hospital prices in nineteen states with such …
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Essays in industrial organization
… price information service may have changed the consumer search environment significantly. Using daily price data, sales data, and regional smartphone penetration rates, I find that price dispersion among gasoline stations and markups increase slightly when the smartphone penetration rate …
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Uncertainty in consumer online search and purchase decision making
Consumers´ online pre-purchase information search is an essential part of their buying and decision-making process. Pre-purchase search is an activity that most consumers engage in frequently to extract up-to-date information for a purchase decision. Search is an interesting topic from the …
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Understanding the factors driving product searches : an analysis using panel data
This study examines the factors that influence consumer product search behavior on e-commerce platforms, specifically focusing on the leading marketplaces in Indonesia, namely Shopee, Tokopedia, and Lazada using a panel data approach. This research analyzes the impact of organic and paid search …
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Essays in industrial organization
… using a novel structural model of dynamic consumer search. I model how consumers search for airline tickets over time using data gathered from an internet travel agent. My model features sophisticated consumers with rational beliefs about future price movements who make optimal decisions …
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Low engagement and failed choices : exploring the mechanism for harbingers of failure
Previous research has documented the existence of 'harbingers of failure', who systematically purchase new products that fail. This paper proposes an explanation for the harbinger effect. We establish consumer engagement in decision making as one mechanism for the harbinger effect using evidence …
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Essays on Consumer Information Acquisition in Marketing Channels
… employs game theoretical models to investigate consumer information acquisition. Its principal novelty is that I incorporate a richer supply structure with active retailers. This allows me to explore issues that are unique to the marketing channel. Essay 1: Prominent Retailer and Intra-brand …
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Keyword Competition and Determinants of Ad Position in Sponsored Search Advertising
… to prosper in the online world. Statistically, search engines have been the most dominant channels of Internet marketing in recent years. However, the mechanics of advertising in such a market place has created a challenging environment for marketers to position their ads among their …
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Three essays on empirical industrial organization
… gasoline market. The first chapter shows how consumer search confers positive externalities to other consumers in the same market. These externalities can be either direct, by sharing information from prior searches and thus improving the effectiveness of the search process, or indirect, by …
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Equilibrium Implications of Social Utility and Reference Dependence
<p>It is well-known that consumers can deviate from the assumptions of standard economic theory in many ways. My dissertation examines the strategic implications of some behavioral anomalies of consumers in an equilibrium framework. In particular, I focus on how these behavioral anomalies could …
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Essays on games of strategic information disclosure
… problem of two sellers that compete to sell to a consumer by manipulating the availability of information on product quality. In this framework, we examine the role of the consumer's limited ability to process information. Accordingly, we model the consumer as incurring a cost to process more …
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Two essays on digital and multi-channel marketing pricing strategy
… the complex nature of price as a determinant of consumer decision making process. Recent research indicates there is no simple explanation of how price influences firm performance and individual consumer purchase decisions. The pricing strategy in traditional brick-and-mortar stores has received …
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