customer, Internet-retailer, and wholesaler echelons. Recent literature has documented the reality of retail price dispersion … example, how is service quality associated with markups? How are product characteristics related to Internet retailer markups …? To examine these issues, we first developed a model of Internet retail profitability that separates revenues and costs …

Internet use, file sharing, and online sales of records have affected the entry and exit of brick and mortar music specialty … retailers. By merging music store information with data on Internet activity and broadband connectedness at the Metropolitan …This paper uses phonebook records of music retailers in the United States for the years 1998 and 2002 to examine how …

social welfare as well as consumer surplus. Counterfactual analyses using estimation results in the Korean online music …