With the fast-paced growth of e-commerce, it has been essential for both academicians and practitioners to understand how the ongoing shift to the online channel will impact the type and variety of products consumers purchase across the channels. Most of the literature examining the impact of...

We investigate how online price dispersion has evolved since the bursting of the Internet bubble by comparing price dispersion levels in years 2000, 2001, and 2003 and between multi-channel and pure play e-tailers. The results show that although online price dispersion declined between 2000 and...