Research Recap

Modeling Consumer Search: Consolidations and Considerations

Key Takeway

The increased availability of online consumer search data has led researchers to estimate structural models originally developed as theory models rather than templates for empirical work. While structural search models share some features with perfect information demand models, they involve the estimation of additional parameters, such as search costs, raise questions about the identification of these additional parameters, and pose unique computational challenges.

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