Mosel Valley in Germany in order to determine the effect that climate change is likely to have on the income of wine growers …

We examine the competition between a group of Internet retailers that operate in an environment where a price search …

This paper surveys recent studies of Internet auctions. Four main areas of research are summarized. First, economists …'s curse. Third, we explore research about the role of reputation in online auctions. Finally, we discuss what Internet …

We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to … draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for cities. We document that larger markets have … content, suggesting the Internet is a complement to cities. Yet, holding local online content constant, people are less likely …

dataset on 1998-99 Internet shopping behavior and use of information intermediaries by over 30,000 households to examine … strategy and the evolution of market structure. If information weakens the pull of brand, then Internet retailing may grow less …

Despite the interest in measuring price sensitivity of online consumers, most academic work on Internet commerce is … rise of Internet sales. The estimates suggest that prices online are much more variable than the CPI, which understates …

This paper provides one potential explanation for the rise, persistence and eventual fall of internet stock prices … explanation is provided by exploring the behavior of internet stock prices during the period January 1998 to November 2000. In … particular, we document four important elements to our story: (i) the high level of internet stock prices given their underlying …

reduction in search costs on the Internet relative to the physical channel would cause both price and price dispersion to fall …