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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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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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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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The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …
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The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …
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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 …
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There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers inestablished industries … Internet lowers prices. This paper answers this questionfor the auto retailing industry. We use direct measures of search … behavior and consumercharacteristics to investigate how the Internet affects negotiated prices. We show that the Internetlowers …
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