José Luis Moraga-González, Zsolt Sándor, and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest, "Semi-Nonparametric Estimation of Consumer Search Costs", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 28, No. 7, 2013, pp. 1205-1223. This directory contains a supplemental appendix, msw-supplement.pdf, as well as the dataset used in Section 4 of the paper. All data are in the file msw-data.txt, an ASCII file in DOS format. It is zipped in msw-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a". The first row gives the variable names, and the next 47 lines give the observations for each store. The data were collected from shopper.com, pricegrabber.com, and the websites of the stores. Variables: store: store name rating: store rating, calculated as the average of the ranking of the store on shopper.com and pricegrabber.com disclose: dummy for whether the store disclosed shipping cost on either shopper.com or pricegrabber.com logo: dummy for whether the store had its logo on either shopper.com or pricegrabber.com. price1: price for the KTT3311A memory chip ship1: shipping cost for the KTT3311A memory chip stock1: dummy for whether the store had the KTT3311A memory chip in stock price2: price for the KTT533D2 memory chip ship2: shipping cost for the KTT533D2 memory chip stock2: dummy for whether the store had the KTT533D2 memory chip in stock price3: price for the KTDINSP8200 memory chip ship3: shipping cost for the KTDINSP8200 memory chip stock3: dummy for whether the store had the KTDINSP8200 memory chip in stock price4: price for the KTDINSP5150 memory chip ship4: shipping cost for the KTDINSP5150 memory chip stock4: dummy for whether the store had the KTDINSP5150 memory chip in stock price5: price for the KTDINSP6000 memory chip ship5: shipping cost for the KTDINSP6000 memory chip stock5: dummy for whether the store had the KTDINSP6000 memory chip in stock price6: price for the KTDINSP6000A memory chip ship6: shipping cost for the KTDINSP6000A memory chip stock6: dummy for whether the store had the KTDINSP6000A memory chip in stock price7: price for the KACMEME memory chip ship7: shipping cost for the KACMEME memory chip stock7: dummy for whether the store had the KACMEME memory chip in stock price8: price for the KTDINSP9100 memory chip ship8: shipping cost for the KTDINSP9100 memory chip stock8: dummy for whether the store had the KTDINSP9100 memory chip in stock price9: price for the KTMTP3840 memory chip ship9: shipping cost for the KTMTP3840 memory chip stock9: dummy for whether the store had the KTMTP3840 memory chip in stock price10: price for the KTHZD8000A memory chip ship10: shipping cost for the KTHZD8000A memory chip stock10: dummy for whether the store had the KTHZD8000A memory chip in stock