Do Reductions in Search Costs for Partial Information on Online Platforms Lead to Better Consumer Decisions? Evidence of Cognitive Miser Behavior from a Natural Experiment

Dorothy Lianlian Jiang, Shun Ye, Liang Zhao, Bin Gu 0003. Do Reductions in Search Costs for Partial Information on Online Platforms Lead to Better Consumer Decisions? Evidence of Cognitive Miser Behavior from a Natural Experiment. Information Systems Research, 36(3):1780-1798, 2025. [doi]

@article{JiangYZG25,
  title = {Do Reductions in Search Costs for Partial Information on Online Platforms Lead to Better Consumer Decisions? Evidence of Cognitive Miser Behavior from a Natural Experiment},
  author = {Dorothy Lianlian Jiang and Shun Ye and Liang Zhao and Bin Gu 0003},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1287/isre.2022.0432},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2022.0432},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/JiangYZG25},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Information Systems Research},
  volume = {36},
  number = {3},
  pages = {1780-1798},
}