Search Results - subject:"Shopbot"

Online price search across desktop and mobile devices : evidence on cyberslacking and weather effects

Canova, Luciano; Nicolini, Marcella - In: Journal of retailing and consumer services 47 (2019), pp. 32-39

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The Impact of Shopbot Use on Prices and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Online Book Retailing

Tang, Zhulei; Smith, Michael D.; Montgomery, Alan - 2007

have empirically tested these predictions using direct observation of variation in shopbot use over time. This paper … examines the impact of changes in shopbot use over time on pricing behavior in the Internet book market. Using price data … obtained from a leading shopbot, combined with clickstream data on shopbot usage from August 1999 to July 2001, we show that an …

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Intelligent agents in electronic markets for information goods:customization, preference revelation and pricing

Aron, Ravi; Sundararajan, Arun; Viswanathan, Siva - 2005

Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...

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Search and Product Differentiation at an Internet Shopbot

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Dick, Astrid Andrea; Smith, Michael D. - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of … - 2004

consumer search costs using a data set obtained from a major Internet shopbot. For the median consumer, the benefits to …

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A nearly perfect market?

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Dick, Astrid; Smith, Michael - In: Quantitative Marketing and Economics 8 (2010) 1, pp. 1-33

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Grey Power: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Parallel Imports on Market Prices

Thompson, Steve - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 9 (2009) 3, pp. 219-232

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Do Shopbots and Lower Search Costs improve the Efficiency of Electronic Markets? An Agent-based Approach

DARMON, Eric - Society for Computational Economics - SCE

Buyers' search behaviors on electronic markets are characterized by two distinctive features: i) diminishing search costs and ii) the use of informational intermediaries such as price comparison agents (shopbots). We build a simple agent-based model that captures these two features, and we use...

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