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 …

purchased, and sellers choose between auctions and posted-price mechanisms. As the deadline approaches, buyers increase their … bids and are more likely to buy through posted-price listings. The model predicts equilibrium price dispersion even for new …, homogeneous goods. Using data on one million auction and posted-price listings for new-in-box items on eBay.com, we find robust …

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 …

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 …