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comparison site Shopper.com. We find little support for the notion that prices on the Internet are converging to the “law of one …
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Using data from one of the Internet’s leading price comparison sites for consumer electronics products, we present …
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Clearinghouse models of online pricing---such as Varian (1980), Rosenthal (1980), Narasimhan (1988), and Baye … information to make online purchases. These models predict that the responsiveness of a firm's demand to a change in its price …'s location on the screen and relative ranking in the list of prices are important determinants of an online retailer's demand. We …
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We model a homogeneous product environment where identical e-retailers endogenously engage in both brand advertising (to create loyal customers) and price advertising (to attract 'shoppers'). Our analysis allows for 'cross-channel' effects; indeed, we show that price advertising is a substitute...
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We analyze daily mortgage rates posted by online lenders at the price comparison site, Microsurf. While cost shocks … rates systematically depends on market structure: Online mortgage rates are 30 to 40 percent more durable in concentrated … markets than in markets where there are many competitors. We also find that rates posted online tend to exhibit downward …
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We model a homogeneous product environment where identical e-retailers endogenously engage in both brand advertising (to create loyal customers) and price advertising (to attract "shoppers"). Our analysis allows for "cross-channel" effects; indeed, we show that price advertising is a substitute...
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provided by a comparison site, and this reduces profits for platforms (such as an Internet price comparison site) where firms …
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