Price comparison websites, where consumers can compare prices at a search cost that is close to zero, have become … the Swedish price comparison website PriceSpy on prices and price dispersion. We find that increased use by consumers … approximately 2.9 billion SEK. Reduced prices due to increased use of the price comparison website thus resulted in total potential …

price information to consumers depends on how well informed they are beforehand. Theoretically, an increase in consumer … information decreases prices more, the fewer ex ante informed consumers there are. Empirically, we study mandatory price …

We analyze a sample of consumer-electronics products sold by the US NewEgg online-retailer to study the impact of Price … hypothesis that PMGs act as price discrimination tools. …

is not offsetby a low price. Finally, the model exhibits price dispersion and the expected price isincreasing in the …

utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a … and 2014. The paper stands out by explaining price dispersion by differing pricing strategies of former incumbents and … suggest causal evidence for an inverted U-shape effect of consumer search intensity on price dispersion in a clearinghouse …

suggest that on some level price dispersion will still exist, together with some level of price stickiness, both observed in …

has a positive effect on the equilibrium price even if marginal costs are decreasing. We exploit exogenous variation in …

structure often leads to the weakest price competition, and is the worst for consumers among all possible market structures. Due …