Reducing Buyer Search Costs: Implications for Electronic Marketplaces

DOI10.1287/mnsc.43.12.1676zbMath0896.90145OpenAlexW2132159329MaRDI QIDQ4385332

J. Yannis Bakos

Publication date: 13 April 1998

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/27833

zbMATH Keywords

electronic commercesearch costsconsumer searchelectronic marketsinternet markets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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