An Information Search Cost Perspective for Designing Interfaces for Electronic Commerce

1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer Y. Hoque ◽  
Gerald L. Lohse
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Search Cost

Research on Status Quo and Prospects of Online Travel Information Search

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 2027-2030
Author(s):  
Zhi Fei Han ◽  
Hai Xia Qi
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Research Issue ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Travel Information ◽  
Tourism Information ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
At Home

As an emerging research issue of the tourism and electronic commerce, tourism information searching has become the focus of scholars. The foreign scholars have achieved fruitful results since 1990s, while studies on this field are more actively at home these years. The current study aims at helping the researchers better by comprehending the existing finds and recently perspective, we summarized and categorized the findings of research in recent years, and expect to present an overall and timely analysis.

Individual Health Insurance Market with an Entrant – The ACA Health Insurance Exchange Observations

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Shi ◽  
Wen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Plan ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Search Cost ◽  
Baseline Model ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Health Insurance Market ◽  
Market Coverage

Abstract In this paper, a general framework is built up to model the dynamic of consumer health plan choice and individual health insurance market competition. A primary goal is to identify driving forces to individual health insurance equilibrium market coverage and premium. In the baseline model, we introduce plan quality information search cost as an additional determinant to consumer’s plan choice. Health insurers compete under the Hotelling’s game theory framework. Equilibrium solutions of the baseline model highlight the importance of budget limit and information search cost to health plan enrollment. The more important objective is to examine the impact of market entrants on equilibrium insurance market coverage and plan prices. In the model with market entry, we add an additional dimension to the baseline model. Equilibrium solutions and numerical studies show positive impact of higher insurance market coverage and lower health plan prices. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought multiple unprecedented changes to the health insurance market and provided opportunities to study market dynamics and driving forces. The ACA health insurance exchange market experience shows consistency with our model findings even at the early stage of implementation. More importantly, market observations suggest that entry barriers of claim costs and information search cost are high for entrants.

The Online Reviews' Effects on Internet Consumer Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingli Zhang ◽  
Suyun Ding ◽  
Yuanwei Bian
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Search Cost ◽  
Consumer Behaviors ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
New Research

Consumer behaviors have always been the hot spot of the study. With the arrival of the network age and the popularity of e-commerce, the consumption pattern of shopping online is beginning. Until December of 2014, there were 649 million Internet users in China, and it's increasing. In the year of 2014, the number of most mainstream online shoppers has increased by 23.7% and shopping online has become an irresistible trend. New consumption mode can produce a new research subject, the study of Internet consumer behaviors becomes very important. This article used LocoySpider, a data mining software, to mine Taobao online reviews. Through the analysis of online reviews, we can study the effect of online reviews on consumer behaviors. During the study, we set the risk perception as intermediary variable. By the study, we can help the electronic commercial enterprises to attract customers, retain customers and reduce the information search cost.

The Online Reviews' Effects on Internet Consumer Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 525-537
Author(s):  
Mingli Zhang ◽  
Suyun Ding ◽  
Yuanwei Bian
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Search Cost ◽  
Consumer Behaviors ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
New Research

Consumer behaviors have always been the hot spot of the study. With the arrival of the network age and the popularity of e-commerce, the consumption pattern of shopping online is beginning. Until December of 2014, there were 649 million Internet users in China, and it's increasing. In the year of 2014, the number of most mainstream online shoppers has increased by 23.7% and shopping online has become an irresistible trend. New consumption mode can produce a new research subject, the study of Internet consumer behaviors becomes very important. This article used LocoySpider, a data mining software, to mine Taobao online reviews. Through the analysis of online reviews, we can study the effect of online reviews on consumer behaviors. During the study, we set the risk perception as intermediary variable. By the study, we can help the electronic commercial enterprises to attract customers, retain customers and reduce the information search cost.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document