The authors investigate customer response to the addition of a mobile shopping channel to existing online and offline channels. They investigate the cannibalization by the new mobile channel of existing channels and evaluate changes in households' purchasing behavior following adoption of the...

Price dispersion in simultaneous online auctions is a puzzle in light of the relatively low search costs required to find the lower price. Much of this price dispersion appears to be due to lack of switching by bidders between auctions, which in turn could be due to inertia related to search...

In fractional ownership markets, consumers purchase a share in a property and can later exchange it with other owners through a secondary market. Forward-looking consumers may purchase low quality shares at a low price with the intention of trading up. This poses a serious problem. We show that...