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Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from online retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...
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Increased competition from the internet has raised concerns about the quality of prescription drugs sold online. Given …
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While a fast-growing body of research has looked at how the advent and diffusion of e-commerce has affected prices, much less work has investigated e-commerce's impact on the number and type of producers operating in an industry. This paper theoretically and empirically takes up the question of...
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sold in 29 European, Asian, and North American markets via the Internet by Spain's second largest apparel manufacture … cross-country price variations of identical items purchased via the Internet by consumers who do not take advantage of …
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The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … comparisons online. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact that the rise of Internet comparison shopping sites has … group using the Internet reduces average insurance prices for the group by as much as 5 percent. Further evidence indicates …
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Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...
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We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
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This paper addresses the question of how much the Internet lowers prices for new cars and why. Using a large dataset of … consumer pays by approximately 2.2%. This suggests that consumers who use an Internet referral service are not those who would … have obtained a low price even in the absence of the Internet. Instead, our finding is consistent with consumers choosing …
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This paper investigates the effect of Internet car referral services on dealer pricing of automobiles in California …
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We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet …. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet … their products over the internet and to control the pricing of their products over the internet. We examine three categories …
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