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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

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  1. Gao, Fujuan & Fenoaltea, Enrico Maria & Zhang, Yi-Cheng, 2023. "Market failure in a new model of platform design with partially informed consumers," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 619(C).
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  6. Chinonso E. Etumnu, 2022. "A competitive marketplace or an unfair competitor? An analysis of Amazon and its best sellers ranks," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 73(3), pages 924-937, September.
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  8. Michèle Belot & Philipp Kircher & Paul Muller, 2019. "Providing Advice to Jobseekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 86(4), pages 1411-1447.
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  11. Martin Peitz, 2024. "The Economic Theory of Two-Sided Platforms," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2024_584, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
  12. Alan Xiaochen Feng, 2018. "Bank Competition, Risk Taking, and their Consequences: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage and Labor Markets," IMF Working Papers 2018/157, International Monetary Fund.
  13. Ryan Martin, 2020. "Identifying Consumer-Welfare Changes when Online Search Platforms Change Their List of Search Results," Staff Working Papers 20-5, Bank of Canada.
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  25. Junbao Li & Chengying He & Zhanzhong Shi, 2025. "Platform search design with heterogeneous consumers," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-14, December.
  26. Beckert, Walter, 2018. "Choice in the presence of experts: The role of general practitioners in patients’ hospital choice," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 98-117.
  27. Martin Peitz, 2025. "Governance and Regulation of Platforms," Springer Books, in: Claude Ménard & Mary M. Shirley (ed.), Handbook of New Institutional Economics, edition 0, chapter 23, pages 565-593, Springer.
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  29. Pesendorfer, Martin & Schiraldi, Pasquale & Silva-Junior, Daniel, 2023. "Omitted budget constraint bias in discrete-choice demand models," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
  30. Huang, Yangguang & Xie, Yu, 2023. "Search algorithm, repetitive information, and sales on online platforms," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
  31. Grégory Jolivet & Hélène Turon, 2019. "Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 86(3), pages 1258-1300.
  32. Salvo, Alberto, 2018. "Flexible fuel vehicles, less flexible minded consumers: Price information experiments at the pump," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 194-221.
  33. Renato Gomes & Andrea Mantovani, 2025. "Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 23(1), pages 190-235.
  34. Harris, Mark N. & Novarese, Marco & Wilson, Chris M., 2022. "Being in the right place: A natural field experiment on the causes of position effects in individual choice," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 194(C), pages 24-40.
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  36. Marleen Marra, 2024. "Estimating and Auction Platform Game with Two-Sided Entry," Working Papers hal-03393068, HAL.
  37. Xuan Teng, 2022. "Self-Preferencing, Quality Provision, and Welfare in Mobile Application Markets," CESifo Working Paper Series 10042, CESifo.
  38. Wei Zhou & Zidong Wang, 2020. "Competing for Search Traffic in Query Markets: Entry Strategy, Platform Design, and Entrepreneurship," Working Papers 20-12, NET Institute.
  39. Donna, Javier D. & Schenone, Pablo & Veramendi, Gregory F., 2020. "Networks, frictions, and price dispersion," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 406-431.
  40. Elliott, M. & Galeotti., A. & Koh., A. & Li, W., 2021. "Market Segmentation Through Information," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2105, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
  41. Soetevent, Adriaan R., 2021. "I’d Like to Move It! Consumption Rivalry in the EV Public Charging Market: Demand Estimation with Deterministic Choice Set Variation," EconStor Preprints 228520, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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  43. Ginger Zhe Jin & Zhentong Lu & Xiaolu Zhou & Lu Fang, 2021. "Flagship Entry in Online Marketplaces," NBER Working Papers 29239, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  44. Pedro M. Gardete & Megan Hunter, 2024. "Multiattribute Search: Empirical Evidence and Information Design," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 43(5), pages 1052-1080, September.
  45. Yoshimoto, Hisayuki & Nakabayashi, Jun, 2019. "Search and resale frictions in a two-sided online platform: A case of multi-use assets," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 85-105.
  46. Casner, Ben, 2020. "Seller curation in platforms," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
  47. Xu, Lina & Roy, Abhijit, 2022. "Cashback as cash forward: The serial mediating effect of time/effort and money savings," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 30-37.
  48. Florian Morath & Johannes Münster, 2018. "Online Shopping and Platform Design with Ex Ante Registration Requirements," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 64(1), pages 360-380, January.
  49. Yingxiu Zhao & Sitong Zhou, 2023. "The Impact of Two-Sided Market Platforms on Participants’ Trading Strategies: An Evolutionary Game Analysis," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-18, April.
  50. Zoë Cullen & Chiara Farronato, 2021. "Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 67(7), pages 3985-4003, July.
  51. Hana Choi & Carl F. Mela, 2019. "Monetizing Online Marketplaces," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 38(6), pages 948-972, November.
  52. Justin P. Johnson & Andrew Rhodes & Matthijs Wildenbeest, 2023. "Platform Design When Sellers Use Pricing Algorithms," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 91(5), pages 1841-1879, September.
  53. Christian Bach & Robert Edwards & Christian Jaag, 2023. "Postal Platform Pricing with Limited Consumer Attention," Working Papers 202318, University of Liverpool, Department of Economics.
  54. Johannes Johnen & Robert Somogyi, 2019. "Deceptive Products on Platforms," Working Papers 19-13, NET Institute.
  55. Charles Hodgson & Gregory Lewis, 2025. "You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 93(4), pages 1299-1332, July.
  56. Florian Schuett & Amedeo Piolatto, 2022. "Information vs Competition: How Platform Design Affects Profits and Surplus," Working Papers 1325, Barcelona School of Economics.
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  59. Gur, Yonatan & Macnamara, Gregory & Saban, Daniela, 2020. "On the Disclosure of Promotion Value in Platforms with Learning Sellers," Research Papers 3865, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  60. Franz Hackl & Michael Hölzl‐Leitner & Rudolf Winter‐Ebmer & Christine Zulehner, 2021. "Successful retailer strategies in price comparison platforms," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(5), pages 1284-1305, July.
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  65. Sokullu, Senay, 2023. "More Is Better, Or Not? An Empirical Analysis of Buyer Preferences for Variety on the E-Market," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 209(C), pages 450-470.
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