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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per-capita income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that positively links prices of tradables to consumer income....

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Not a Typical Firm : The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital–Labor Substitution

Hubmer, Joachim; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The decline in the U.S. labor share is far from uniform across firms. While the aggregate labor share has declined, especially in manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, the labor share of a typical firm in these industries has risen. This paper studies the dynamics of the substitution of capital...

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Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share

Autor, David - 2018

harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity … (TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …

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Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs : Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity

Aum, Sangmin - 2018

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …

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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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More Amazon Effects : Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors

Cavallo, Alberto - 2018

I study how online competition, with its algorithmic pricing technologies and the transparency of the Internet, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes...

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Virtual Borders : Online Nominal Rigidities and International Market Segmentation

Boivin, Jean - 2010

Do prices respond to macro shocks? Does the mere presence of international frontiers hinder trade? We revisit these questions by studying a dataset of online book prices for a number of US and Canadian retailers. We believe our dataset is well suited to this task for a number of reasons: (1)...

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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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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers

Cavallo, Alberto F. - 2016

Online prices are increasingly being used for a variety of inflation measurement and research applications, yet little is know about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. This paper presents the results of the first large-scale comparison of...

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A Theory of Bidding Dynamics and Deadlines in Online Retail

Coey, Dominic - 2016

We present an equilibrium search model that parsimoniously rationalizes the use of auctions as a sales mechanism for new-in-box goods--a frequent occurrence in online retail markets--and analyze whether the existence of these auctions is welfare enhancing relative to a market consisting only of...

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