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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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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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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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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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The Research Behavior of Individual Investors

Laarits, Toomas; Wurgler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Browser data from an approximately representative sample of individual investors offers a detailed account of their search for information, including how much time they spend on stock research, which stocks they research, what categories of information they seek, and when they gather information...

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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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Why was Europe Left at the Station When America's Productivity Locomotive Departed?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2004

After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind. The growth rate in output per hour over 1995-2003 in Europe was just half that in the United States, and this annual growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity...

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Retail Electricity Competition

Joskow, Paul L. - 2004

We analyze a number of unstudied aspects of retail electricity competition. We first explore the implications of load profiling of consumers whose traditional meters do not allow for measurement of their real time consumption, when consumers are homogeneous up to a scaling factor. In general,...

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