There are numerous evidence showing that consumers usually experience emotional dissonance (e.g. purchase regret) and anticipate it in consideration set formation process. Our paper investigates how anticipated regret affects consumers' consideration set formation and the relevant implications...

Consumers need not evaluate all available product information before making a purchase. This may arise because shopping environments prevent a full evaluation (e.g. online). We develop a model of simultaneous search in which consumers have limited ability in product evaluation in order to study...

An online shopping intermediary is an internet platform on which consumers and third-party sellers transact. Shopping intermediaries provide a search environment (e.g., search aids) to lower consumers’ search costs incurred when finding and evaluating sellers’ products. We study strategic...