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Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet
Carlton, Dennis W.; Chevalier, Judith A. - 2022
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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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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Economies of Density in E-Commerce : A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network
Houde, Jean-François - 2017
We examine the economies of density associated with the expansion of Amazon's distribution network from 2006 to 2018. We demonstrate that, in placing a fulfillment center in a new state, Amazon faces a trade-off between the revenue implications of exposing local customers to sales tax on their...
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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers
Cavallo, Alberto - 2016
Offices and researchers using online data, as well as those interested in the effect of the Internet on retail prices …
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
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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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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Returns to Consumer Search : Evidence from Ebay
Blake, Tom - 2016
consumer search on the internet. The extensive nature of the eBay data allows us to examine a rich and detailed set of …
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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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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?
Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - 2023
This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an online labor market. Labor demand elasticities determine workers’ wages, and buyers’ past market experience shapes both their job posting frequency and hiring rates. We...
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