A large body of research in economics, information systems and marketing has sought to understand sources of price … contrast, our research explores the key role played by vendors’ price-format adoption in explaining price dispersion. We … study shows that a vendor’s price-format remains an important source of price dispersion in both channels even after …

We study the competitive effects of five liquidations and six mergers in the domestic U.S. airline industry between … larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … efficiencies and entry-inducing effects are found to be strong enough to drive prices down to pre-exit levels. -- Airline industry …