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0861 |aFB3-5/2020-5E-PDF
1001 |aMartin, Ryan, |eauthor.
24510|aIdentifying consumer-welfare changes when online search platforms change their list of search results / |cby Ryan Martin.
264 1|aOttawa, Ontario, Canada : |bBank of Canada, |c2020.
264 4|c©2020
300 |a1 online resource (iii, 41 pages)
336 |atext|btxt|2rdacontent
337 |acomputer|bc|2rdamedia
338 |aonline resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
4901 |aStaff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, |x1701-9397 ; |v2020-5
500 |aCover title.
504 |aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 30-32).
5203 |a"Online shopping is often guided by search platforms. Consumers type keywords into query boxes, and search platforms deliver a list of products. Consumers' attention is limited, and exhaustive searches are often impractical. Thus, the order in which products appear in search results affects the products consumers discover and ultimately purchase. In this setting, I study the identification of consumer-welfare changes in response to exogenous changes in search-result lists. I focus on the case of consumers engaging in costly searches for a single, indivisible (discrete) product among a collection of substitutes. I show that exact consumer welfare changes—that is, compensating variation and equivalent variation—can be calculated with the use of straightforward integrals of the aggregate demand. I apply my results to shopping data provided by an online travel agency (OTA). I estimate that when the OTA changes search results from random to its proprietary listing structure, welfare improves by an average of $8.84 per user. I estimate an average welfare loss of $20.51 per user when the OTA removes the top five products from all of its search-result lists"--Abstract.
650 0|aEconometric models|zCanada.
650 0|aTeleshopping|zCanada.
650 0|aInternet searching|zCanada.
650 6|aModèles économétriques|zCanada.
650 6|aTélé-achat|zCanada.
650 6|aRecherche sur Internet|zCanada.
7102 |aBank of Canada.
830#0|aStaff working paper (Bank of Canada)|v2020-5.|w(CaOODSP)9.806221
85640|qPDF|s913 KB|uhttps://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2020/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2020-5-eng.pdf