Consumer choice and use of multiple information sources for automobile purchases

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 7-40

  Kim, Jung Seek ^a   Ratchford, T Brian ^b  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile market; business to consumer e commerce; consumer information search; discrete continuous choice model; economics of information; limited dependent variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859065596     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEC1086-4415160301     Document Type: Article

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