有序消费者搜索

Ordered Consumer Search

Journal of the European Economic Association · 2017
被引 121 · 同刊同年前 8%
人大 AABS 4

中文导读

研究了消费者按特定顺序搜索商品的现象,包括对称卖家下的有序搜索均衡、广告引导搜索、购买历史影响未来搜索,以及卖家提高自身搜索成本的动机。

Abstract

The paper discusses situations in which consumers search through their options in a deliberate order. Topics include: the existence of ordered search equilibria with symmetric sellers (all consumers first inspect the seller they anticipate will set the lowest price, and a seller that is inspected first by consumers will set the lowest price); the use of price and non-price advertising to direct search; how purchase history can guide future search; and the incentive a seller can have to raise its own search cost. I also show how ordered search can be reformulated as a simpler discrete choice problem without search frictions.

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