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The Impact of Price Adjustment Costs on Price Dispersion in E-Commerce
Böheim, René - 2019
We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to … greater price adjustment costs result in greater price dispersion. Although the impact of price adjustment costs on price … dispersion became weaker over time, the causal effect of price adjustment costs on price dispersion is still present at the end …
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Data Brokers Co-Opetition
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
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The Impact of Price Adjustment Costs on Price Dispersion in E-Commerce
Böheim, René; Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael - 2019
We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to … greater price adjustment costs result in greater price dispersion. Although the impact of price adjustment costs on price … dispersion became weaker over time, the causal effect of price adjustment costs on price dispersion is still present at the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018201
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Searching the Ebay Marketplace
Sailer, Katharina - 2021
a reservation bid for low-price auctions. Extending results from the empirical auction literature and employing a …
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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Mums Go Online : Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2021
We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors. We show that broadband internet access increased...
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Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation and Market Leadership
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader’s role, and so to strategically manipulate its rival’s price …. Prices and profits are non-monotonic in the length of the consumer list. For an intermediate size, price leadership entails a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141054
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Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation and Market Leadership
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader's role, and so to strategically manipulate its rival's price …. Prices and profits are non-monotonic in the length of the consumer list. For an intermediate size, price leadership entails a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861421
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Changing Electricity Markets : Quantifying the Price Effects of Greening the Energy Matrix
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022
We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) wholesale electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...
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Bitcoin Price Co-Movements and Culture
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
-movements and exchange shutdowns in 34 major countries around the world over the period 20 July 2010 – 5 February 2020. Under the … behaviour of investors and on Bitcoin price co-movements. Further, the probability of Bitcoin exchanges shutdowns is higher in …
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