This paper examines the effect of the Internet on markets in which match-quality is important, including an analysis of … context of the used book market, exploiting both cross-sectional differences across books and time-series differences in the … wake of Amazon's acquisition and incorporation of a large used book marketplace. The paper develops a framework for …

improvement in a book's reviews leads to an increase in relative sales at that site, and 3) the impact of 1-star reviews is … greater than the impact of 5-star reviews. The results suggest that new forms of customer communication on the Internet have …

The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …

We estimate the sensitivity of Internet retail purchasing to sales taxes using data from the eBay marketplace. Our …

We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in …

piracy. My analysis is based on copyright registrations, information on authors, book titles and prices, financial data from …

it difficult for researchers to accurately measure internet-based search behavior in the years to come. Finally, we …