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The Law of One Price? The Impact of IT-Enabled Markets on Consumer Search and Retailer Pricing
Smith, Michael D. - 2001
Recent IT research has analyzed how the performance of IT-enabled markets may differ from conventional markets. This literature has made two unexpected empirical findings. First, ITenabled markets for commodity goods exhibit significant price dispersion. Second, well-known retailers in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441013
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Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Smith, Michael D. - 2000
There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a data set of over 8,500 price observations collected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441259
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dargestellt am Beispiel von Existenzgründerinnen und Existenzgründern im Einzelhandel in den neuen Bundesländern
Panick, Veronika - 1999
Mit der Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Zusammenhängen von Biographie- und individuellen Lernprozessen nachzugehen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel von acht ostdeutschen ExistenzgründerInnen, die sich nach der Wende in den neuen Bundesländern im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel selbständig gemacht...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467098
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American Indian tribes and electric industry restructuring: Issues and opportunities
Howarth, D.; Busch, J.; Starrs, T. - 2009
The US electric utility industry is undergoing a period of fundamental change that has significant implications for Native American tribes. Although many details remain to be determined, the future electric power industry will be very different from that of the present. It is anticipated that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435668
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From monopoly to markets: Milestones along the road. Occasional paper {number_sign}25
Olson, W.P. - 2009
recent developments in the electric utility industry--most notably, the rapid trend toward competition in electric generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435698
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Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (Fifth Edition)
Swezey, B.; Bird, L. - 2008
their regulated utility provider or in competitive markets. As competition spreads in the electric power industry, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435721
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Analysis of debt leveraging in private power projects
Kahn, E.P.; Meal, M.; Doerrer, S.; Morse, S. - 2008
As private power has grown to become a significant part of the electricity system, increasing concern about its financial implications has arisen. In many cases, the source of this concern has been the substantial reliance of these projects on debt financing. This study examines debt leveraging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435771
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Managing electricity reliability risk through the futures markets
Siddiqui, Afzal S. - 2008
In competitive electricity markets, the vertically integrated utilities that were responsible for ensuring system reliability in their own service territories, or groups of territories, often cease to exist. Typically, the burden falls to an independent system operator (ISO) to insure that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435805
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The role of analytical models: Issues and frontiers
Blair, P. - 2008
A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … producers, were not considered. More recently in the course of the policy debate over increasing competition, a number of models … interpret altemative scenarios or other means of increasing competition in the electric power industry in the terms of existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435970
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Energy and environmental efficiency in competitive power markets
Warwick, W.M. - 2009
sales. The conventional wisdom is that active wholesale power markets with competition among alternative generators will … competition have remained silent about potential environmental consequences. However, skeptics of increased competition, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435976