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Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search : A Field Experiment

Fang, Lu; Chen, Yanyou; Farronato, Chiara; Yuan, Zhe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing behavior. We collaborate...

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

Ellison, Glenn - 2006

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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Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

Choi, James J. - 2000

We analyze the impact of a Web-based trading channel on the trading activity in two corporate 401(k) plans. Using detailed data on about 100,000 participants, we compare trading growth in these firms to growth for a sample of firms without a Web channel. After 18 months of access, the inferred...

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Banning Foreign Pharmacies from Sponsored Search : The Online Consumer Response

Chesnes, Matthew - 2014

Increased competition from the internet has raised concerns about the quality of prescription drugs sold online. Given …

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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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E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Goldmanis, Maris - 2008

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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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector

Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...

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Health Insurance on the Internet and the Economics of Search

Pauly, Mark V. - 2002

This paper explores the level and dispersion of premiums paid for individual health insurance by comparing asking price' data posted on an electronic insurance exchange with survey data on premiums actually paid in the period just before the advent of electronic exchanges. The primary...

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Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online : Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Goolsbee, Austan - 2002

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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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

Morton, Fiona Scott - 2001

Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …

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