. Although in such a market a consumer will typically search for the cheapest price for a given product, reliability and service …

. Although in such a market a consumer will typically search for the cheapest price for a given product, reliability and service …

This paper studies the identification of the costs of simultaneous search in portfolio problems (Chade and Smith, 2006 …). We show that market shares data from a single market do not provide sufficient information to identify the search cost … markets wherethe alternatives that similar decision makers confront vary, the search cost distribution and theutility …

We experimentally explore individual and interactive decision making ina sequential search task and test whether …)adequately explain the observed search behavior. Subjects can, at acost, employ screening and selection methods facilitating their search … experimentation. Contrary to popular theoriesof sequential search, aspiration levels are set below the maximum valueof all previously …