Internet presumably reduces search cost driving price to the competitivelevel. Evidence from empirical research quantifying dispersion in theelectronic based markets has yield mixed results. More recent researchhas documented near zero dispersion in the electronic markets usingtransaction...

Recent IT research has analyzed how the performance of IT-enabled markets may differ from conventional markets. This literature has made two unexpected empirical findings. First, ITenabled markets for commodity goods exhibit significant price dispersion. Second, well-known retailers in these...

The growth of Internet price search tools, notably shopbots, has reduced consumers’ search costs for price and some product characteristics. While a variety of analytic models predict that increased consumer search through shopbots will lower price levels among competing retailers, there is no...

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a data set of over 8,500 price observations collected...

We study trading and prices in newly issued municipal bonds. Municipals, which trade in decentralized, broker-dealer markets, are underpriced when issued, but unlike equities the average price rises slowly over a period of several days. We document high levels of price dispersion in newly issued...

Artículo de revista ; This article describes the boom of recent years in e-commerce in Spain, which reached a 14% share of sales in 2016, similar to the euro area average. The COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated this trend, with some authors indicating a 6 pp increase in the share of sales...

This paper investigates the existence and determinants of interest rates dispersion in loans and deposits of Spanish banks. A unique feature of the research is that it covers a whole industry (thirty products and two hundred banks) from 1989 to 2003. We find that: i) interest rates dispersion is...

Este trabajo analiza las implicaciones macroeconómicas de la acumulación de «capital de clientes» a nivel de empresa. Presentamos un modelo dinámico de búsqueda en el que distintas empresas compiten por los consumidores mediante la oferta de contratos de precios en el mercado de bienes. En...

Privacy has always been a respected value regardless of national borders, cultural differences, and time in every society throughout history. This study focuses on the unprecedented changes in the traditional forms of privacy and consequent concerns with regard to invasion of privacy along with...

This report is the outcome of the Schuman Programme project undertaken by the Banco de España to study how the ESCB/SSM institutions have interpreted the most important aspects of the GDPR. It takes stock of the information received through a questionnaire on the implementation of the GDPR in...