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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Ellison, Glenn - 2014

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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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per-capita income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that positively links prices of tradables to consumer income....

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Returns to Consumer Search : Evidence from Ebay

Blake, Tom - 2016

A growing body of empirical literature finds that consumers are relatively limited in how much they search over product characteristics. We assemble a dataset of search and purchase behavior from eBay to quantify the returns, and thus implied costs, to consumer search on the internet. The...

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Does Information Undermine Brand? Information Intermediary Use and Preference for Branded Web Retailers

Waldfogel, Joel; Chen, Lu - 2021

Investments in brand provide one method for vendors to become known and convince potential customers that vendors will … their commitments can serve a similar function and may undermine investments in brand. This study uses a 13-month panel … whether information use undermines brand. We find that individuals who take up using price comparison sites reduce their …

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E-Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Goldmanis, Maris - 2012

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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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

Dinerstein, Michael - 2015

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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Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce

Dolfen, Paul - 2019

E-Commerce represents a rapidly growing share of consumer spending in the U.S. We use transactions-level data on credit and debit cards from Visa, Inc. between 2007 and 2017 to quantify the resulting consumer surplus. We estimate that E-Commerce spending reached 8% of consumption by 2017,...

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Price Setting in Online Markets : Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-Border Integration

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014

We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the U.S. and Canada, a rapidly growing segment of the retail sector. Relative to prices in regular stores, prices in online markets are more flexible as well as exhibit stronger pass-through (60-75 percent) and faster convergence...

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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018

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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Connecting the Countryside Via E-Commerce : Evidence from China

Couture, Victor - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the first nation-wide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, we find little evidence for income gains to rural...

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