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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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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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Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs
Abel, Andrew B. - 2009
Recurrent intervals of inattention to the stock market are optimal if consumers incur a utility cost to observe asset values. When consumers observe the value of their wealth, they decide whether to transfer funds between a transactions account from which consumption must be financed and an...
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Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce
Einav, Liran - 2012
We estimate the sensitivity of Internet retail purchasing to sales taxes using data from the eBay marketplace. Our …
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Broadband Internet and the Stock Market Investments of Individual Investors
Hvide, Hans K.; Meling, Tom G.; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of broadband internet use on the investment decisions of individual investors. A public program in … Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use … increase their trading activity in stocks. Overall, access to high-speed internet seems to spur a "democratization of finance …
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Regulation, Distribution Efficiency, and Retail Density
Flath, David - 2003
After outlining characteristics of Japan's distribution sector, a comprehensive international comparison of it to those of other nations is presented and analyzed for underlying differences. This leads to an explanation of Japan's retail store density, which is then related to the structure of...
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The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth : Evidence from Retail Trade
Foster, Lucia - 2002
Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to productivity growth, is important both because it affects how we model and interpret aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure and institutions may affect the reallocation's...
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Market Size Matters
Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2002
This paper characterizes the effects of market size on the size distribution of establishments for thirteen retail trade industries across 225 U.S. cities. In nearly every industry we examine, establishments are larger in larger cities, and in four industries the dispersion of establishment...
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