This paper evaluates alternative strategic models of competition and market structure in online retailing, and makes … comparisons with traditional retailing. Online consumers are less concerned than traditional consumers about spatial … characteristics and more concerned about hidden quality characteristics. Online retailers rely more on advertising than traditional …

This paper considers three hypotheses about the strategic origin of price dispersion in homogeneous product online … prices for 30 models of household appliances collected from the largest Russian online marketplace Market.Yandex.ru. In … new challenges for theoretical explanations of observed Internet prices …

both online and offline prices and on price dispersion. The analysis also uses these unique data to provide a more complete …, whether the ticket was purchased online or offline, and the share of online purchases for the city-pair. Controlling for … about 13 percent less than offline prices. The analysis also shows that a ten percent increase in the online share of …

Internet traffic during weekends is lighter than at weekdays, allowing airlines to adopt a distinctive pricing policy … level. This suggests that different arrival timing of online consumers during the weekdays motivate airlines to adopt a …

While many conjectured that the information-rich and frictionless nature of online markets would result in marginal … cost pricing, this has proved not to be the case. Price dispersion online is ubiquitous. The main reason is that price …

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

comparison site Shopper.com. We find little support for the notion that prices on the Internet are converging to the “law of one …

Using data from one of the Internet’s leading price comparison sites for consumer electronics products, we present …

Clearinghouse models of online pricing---such as Varian (1980), Rosenthal (1980), Narasimhan (1988), and Baye … information to make online purchases. These models predict that the responsiveness of a firm's demand to a change in its price …'s location on the screen and relative ranking in the list of prices are important determinants of an online retailer's demand. We …

We analyse consumers’ search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …