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Price Dispersion in Internet Sales : Data from an Online Marketplace Contradict Lab Experiments
Bazenkov, Nikolai - 2020
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 …
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Pricing Internet Service
Steinberg, Richard - 2014
Internet service needs to be appropriately priced, because Internet Service Providers want to remain competitive, and because pricing is increasingly seen by engineers as an essential tool for controlling network congestion. Thus, the pricing of Internet service lies at the interface of...
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Is Amazon the next Google?
Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015
). However, several areas of conduct, in particular, the use of best price clauses and the (anti-) competitive interplay of …
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Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay : is the internet driving competition or market monopolization?
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2013
This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction platforms, and social networks. Given the high level...
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The internet economy : regulatory challenges and practices
Koske, Isabell; Bitetti, Rosamaria; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2014
The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper functioning over the long run is therefore crucial for economic growth and people’s wellbeing more generally. The success of the Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of...
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Industrial Policy 4.0 : Promoting Transformation in the Digital Economy
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - 2019
The rise of the fourth industrial revolution (IR) is deeply embedded in a wider context of privatization of knowledge, rising costs of innovation and uneven distribution of capacity between countries. But debates on a ‘balanced' policy framework to tackle these issues have until now floundered...
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Reputation, Location and Prices in Chinese Electronic Commerce Markets
Zhao, Dongmei; Savage, Scott J.Savage; Chen, Yongmin - College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural … - 2007
While it is easier to obtain price information online, electronic commerce (e-commerce) may exacerbate information … state-owned enterprises still play a substantial role, China offers an interesting opportunity to investigate the price … reputation established in traditional markets into a eleven percent price premium in e-commerce markets. E-tailers with foreign …
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International trade in online services
Alaveras, Georgios; Martens, Bertin - 2015
This paper presents an innovative database of domestic and bilateral online services trade between 39 countries, including the US, the EU and some emerging market economies. It combines monetized and "free" online services in a single measure based on the volume of page views on websites of...
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Marktordnung und Barrieren im grenzüberschreitenden Handel mit Kommunikationsdienstleistungen : Dienstleistungen der Informationstechnologie
Krancke, Jan - 2000
Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die technischen Grundlagen und die Marktordnung für den internationalen Handel mit Dienstleistungen der Informationstechnologie dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die resultierenden Handelsbarrieren. Die Funktionsweise des Internets (Netzaufbau, Adress- und...
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Did Internet Kill the Retail Trade Star? Using Google Trends to Estimate the Impact of E-Commerce on Retail Employment
Vitt, David - 2017
Within-state variation in the search frequency for “amazon” at Google is used to measure the industry specific impact of e-commerce on retail employment. To instrument for exogenous variation in e-commerce exposure, I rely on random variation in consumer's use of the Internet for tasks like...
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