consumer packaged goods. Variation in where consumers have lived in the past allows us to isolate the causal effect of past …

firms (i.e., business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce). We begin with a conceptual framework to organize the changes in …

entry brand, and by improving consumer perception for parts of the platform. In the meantime, flagship entry cannibalizes … hurts existing sellers of the entry brand. On average, the effect on consumer welfare is more positive if the flagship entry …

consumer search on the internet. The extensive nature of the eBay data allows us to examine a rich and detailed set of …

data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer search and price competition when retailers offer homogeneous goods. We find … consumer choice sets can be pro-competitive. Finally, we examine a subsequent A/B experiment run by eBay that illustrates the …

consumer search and purchasing behavior. We collaborate with one of the largest e-commerce platforms in China and study its …

We develop and estimate a model of consumer search with spatial learning. Consumers make inferences from previously … estimated model rationalizes patterns in data on online consumer search paths: search tends to converge to the chosen product in … consumer welfare by 13%: cross-product inferences allow consumers to locate better products in a shorter time. Spatial learning …