The online marketplace is growing every year. As it continues to grow it is important to understand the interactions between online consumers and online merchants. This study examines the relationship between online merchants and online consumers focusing on how information is passed between the two. With consumers able to search and view dozens of stores in the time it used to take for many of them to drive to one, why are consumers not able to find the best price for the good they hope to buy? By examining past literature on information theory and consumer behavior, combined with considering a 3 x 3 sample of online consumers actually finding items in an online environment, this study will serve as a base for further research on what drives consumer interaction with electronic markets.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept of Economics, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2008. / "Publication number: AAT 3323095."

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 106 p.; also includes graphics (some col.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-106). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

by Kim-sau Chung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66). / Table of symbols --- p.3 / Introduction --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter one: --- On v-informativeness of informers --- p.9 / Chapter Section one: --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter Section two: --- Verifiability structure --- p.12 / Chapter Section three: --- Principal-informer-agent problem --- p.17 / Chapter Section four: --- On v-informativeness of informers --- p.23 / Chapter Section five: --- Conclusion --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter two: --- Idiosyncratic or uniform contracts for the Chinese state enterprises --- p.32 / Chapter Section one: --- Introduction --- p.32 / Chapter Section two: --- The model --- p.36 / Chapter Section three: --- Complete information case --- p.40 / Chapter Section four: --- Incomplete information with type I informer --- p.41 / Chapter Section five: --- Incomplete informaticri with type II informer --- p.45 / Chapter Section six: --- Incomplete information with type III informer --- p.58 / Chapter Section seven: --- Incomplete information with type IV informer --- p.59 / Chapter Section eight: --- Comparative values of mid-tier governmental units to the central government --- p.59 / Chapter Section nine: --- Conclusion --- p.63 / Reference --- p.65

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Fads models for stocks under asymmetric information in a purely continuous(GBM) market were first studied by P. Guasoni (2006), where optimal portfolios and maximum expected logarithmic utilities, including asymptotic utilities for the informed and uninformed investors, were presented. We generalized this theory to Lâevy markets, where stock prices and the process modeling the fads are allowed to include a jump component, in addition to the usual continuous component. We employ the methods of stochastic calculus and optimization to obtain analogous results to those obtained in the purely continuous market. We approximate optimal portfolios and utilities using the instantaneous centralized and quasi-centralized moments of the stocks percentage returns. We also link the random portfolios of the investors, under asymmetric information to the purely deterministic optimal portfolio, under symmetric information. / by Winston S. Buckley. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Bibliography: leaves 268-272.

Orientador: Jose Maria Ferreira Jardim da Silveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T18:29:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vieira_ErivaldoCosta_M.pdf: 624383 bytes, checksum: e056c8e7fd377525c15548f62773b5e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar capacidade que o instrumental teórico microeconômico tem para explicar a estratégia competitiva das empresas do setor de software de gestão integrada (ERP), mais especificamente pela análise da indústria brasileira de software de gestão, tendo como fundamento o trabalho de Shapiro e Varian (1999). Este trabalho está dividido em três fases principais, nas quais foram utilizadas três formas de pesquisa: revisão bibliográfica, pesquisa documental e pesquisa de campo (estudo de caso ou multicaso, já que envolve mais de um sujeito, mais de uma situação). A partir destes elementos elaboram-se considerações sobre as potencialidades e limitações do instrumental teórico microeconômico de explicar o comportamento dos agentes no referido setor / Mestrado / Mestre em Ciências Econômicas