Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … structural model of sequential directed search where consumers observe all advert prices but have to pay a search cost to see the … other advert characteristics. We allow for flexible heterogeneity in consumers' preferences and search costs. After deriving …