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Drivers and impediments of consumer online information search : self-controlled versus agent-based search in a high involvement context

Spiekermann, Sarah; Strobel, Martin; Temme, Dirk - 2002

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SMART : towards spatial internet marketplaces

Abel, David J.; Gaede, Volker; Taylor, Kerry L.; Zhou, … - 1997

Spatial Internet Marketplaces are attractive as a mechanism to enable spatial applications to be built drawing on … services as published by providers on the Internet and bought by customers on an as-required basis. Design ofa Spatial Internet … components required and the special issues in constructing an infrastructure for a Spatial Internet Marketplace. We initially …

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E-privacy : evaluating a new search cost in online environments

Annacker, Dirk; Spiekermann, Sarah; Strobel, Martin - 2001

Electronic Commerce environments increasingly witness a conflict on the subject of e-privacy: While marketers want to maximize their customer knowledge and grasp the identity of their online users, consumers often want to stay anonymous and not reveal private information. The conflict suggests...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615417

Information cascades on the labor market

Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2001

A model of herding behavior on the labor market is discussed where employers only receive signals with limited precision about the workers' types, but can observe previous employers' decisions. In particular, we study a situation where the employer and the worker can influence the signal...

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Private information, risk aversion, and the evolution of market research

Güth, Sandra; Güth, Werner; Müller, Wieland - 2000

On a homogeneous oligopoly market informed sellers are fully aware of market demand whereas uninformed sellers only know the distribution. We first derive the market results when sellers are risk averse, similarly to Ponssard (1979) who assumed risk neutrality throughout. With the help of these...

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Limited depth of reasoning and failure of cascade formation in the laboratory

Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2000

We examine the robustness of information cascades in laboratory experiments. Apart from the situation in which each player can obtain a signal for free (as in the experiment by Anderson and Holt, 1997, American Economic Review), the case of costly signals is studied where players decide whether...

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Does cascade behavior in information cascades reflect Bayesian updating? : an experimental study

Oberhammer, Clemens; Stiehler, Andreas - 2001

Updating behavior in cascade experiments is usually investigated on the basis of urn prediction. But urn predictions alone can only provide a very rough information on individual updating behavior. Therefore, we implement a BDM mechanism. Subjects have to submit maximum prices that they are...

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Should smart investors buy funds with high returns in the past?

Palomino, Frédéric; Uhlig, Harald - 2002

Newspapers and weekly magazines catering to the investing crowd often rank funds according to the returns generated in the past. Aside from satisfying sheer curiosity, these numbers are probably also the basis on which investors pick a fund to invest in. In this article, we fully characterize...

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Worry and the illusion of safety : evidence from a real-objects experiment

Schade, Christian D.; Kunreuther, Howard - 2002

We analyze the impact of an individual's tendency to worry on willingness to pay (WTP) for a protective measure. We report on the results of a controlled experiment with real objects at stake. Worry was measured with the Worry Domains Questionnaire, an instrument determining an individual's...

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Hedging the standard of living via cost of living index futures

Schulz, Rainer - 2000

People dislike inflation because inflation erodes the real value of future nominal income and wealth. Adjustment of future nominal values via a cost of living index is an appropriate way to handle the problem of real income risk. Nonetheless an important aspect needs more discussion: If markets...

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