The Economics of Recommender Systems: Evidence from a Field Experiment on MovieLens

The findings underscore the important role of consumers’ consideration sets in mediating the positive effects of recommender systems on consumer purchases. Practical strategies can be developed to facilitate the formation of the consideration sets. For ...

How do recommender systems induce consumers to buy? Extant research neglects to examine the causal paths through which the use of recommender systems leads to consumer purchases. In this study, we conduct a randomized controlled field experiment on the ...

Current recommender systems often show the same most-highly recommended items again and again ignoring the feedback that users neither rate nor click on those items. We conduct an online field experiment to test two ways of manipulating top-N ...

Recommender systems (RS) are a class of information filter applications whose main goal is to provide personalized recommendations, content, and services to users. Recommendation services may support a firm's marketing strategy and contribute to ...