With the development of e-commerce and smartphones, consumers can use a variety of shopping modes (i.e., showrooming, webrooming, and completely offline/online shopping), each of which provides specific advantages in terms of price, assortment, service, etc. Using a great variety of these...

We analyze a market where firms compete in a conventional and an electronicretail channel. Consumers easily compare prices online, but some incur purchaseuncertainties on the online channel. We investigate the market shares of the two retailchannels and the prices that are charged. We find that...

The development of internet technology has reshaped the market structure for many products. We study the price competition problem between online stores and offline stores, by allowing consumers' preferences to be more favorable towards online shopping. We consider 3 scenarios: (1) market with...