price with respect to per-capita income from a unique dataset that I construct, which features prices of 245 identical goods …—Mango. I find that doubling a destination's per-capita income results in an 18% increase in the price of identical items sold … cross-country price variations of identical items purchased via the Internet by consumers who do not take advantage of …

The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … results also show that the initial introduction of the Internet search sites is initially associated with an increase in price …

We examine the competition between a group of Internet retailers that operate in an environment where a price search … engine plays a dominant role. We show that for some products in this environment, the easy price search makes demand … tremendously price-sensitive. Retailers, though, engage in obfuscation---practices that frustrate consumer search or make it less …

We propose a method for aggregating prices when retailers use periodic sales to price-discriminate amongst … purchases, while Bargain Hunters always pay the lowest price available, the “best price”. We derive the exact price index and … demonstrate empirically that accounting for our best price construct substantially improves the match between conventional price …

this price premium with differences in income, education,a nd search costs; we find no evidence of statistical race …

rate. Multiple margins of adjustment (frequency of price changes, direction of price changes, size of price changes, exit … our dataset to show that degree of competition, stickiness of prices, synchronization of price changes, reputation of … sellers, and returns to search effort are important determinants of pass-through and speed of price adjustment for …

illustrative results on price dispersion, the frequency of over-bidding, the choice of reserve prices, "buy now" options and other …