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期刊:Management Science
[Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]
日期:2022-05-01
卷期号:68 (5): 3904-3924
被引量:4
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DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2021.4085
摘要
This paper studies a search problem in which a consumer is initially aware of only a few products. At every point in time, the consumer then decides between searching among alternatives of which he is already aware and discovering more products. I show that the optimal policy for this search and discovery problem is fully characterized by tractable reservation values. Moreover, I prove that a predetermined index fully specifies the purchase decision of a consumer following the optimal search policy. Finally, a comparison highlights differences to classical random and directed search. This paper was accepted by Dmitri Kuksov, marketing.
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