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 …

. Studies in many countries show that online prices vary significantly (sometimes price dispersion in the Internet is higher … price dispersion in e-commerce. Researchers of this area use different measures of price differentials, include shipping … costs or not, use the proposed price or try to determine transaction prices, reject part of the data considered as outliers …

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 …

This paper considers three hypotheses about the strategic origin of price dispersion in homogeneous product online … median. However, the shape of the observed price distributions is not explained well by any of the models. These results pose …

Price transparency initiatives have recently emerged as a solution to the lack of health care price information … available to consumers. This paper uses the staggered and nationwide diffusion of a leading internet-based price transparency … platform to estimate the effects of price transparency on provider prices. I find a 1-4% reduction in provider prices for …