Online price comparison sites (shopbots) like PriceGrabber.com are the most powerful tools for consumers to easily compare prices and find offers for desired products. Besides providing distributions of actual prices in price comparison tables, shopbots like NexTag.com have recently introduced...

Online customer reviews (OCRs) have become a major source of information for customers on the Internet. Understanding the impact of OCRs on customers’ decisions is an important challenge for academics and practitioners. We apply a choice-based conjoint experiment that combines all relevant...