Lack of trust has been identified as the major barrier to the growth of electronic commerce. Building trust is essential for the success of web vendors, especially less-known ones. If trust is a sine qua non condition of e-commerce development, then understanding its determinants should be a...

This article concerns the subject of demand forecasting and stocks status planning in online shops. One described the ways of materials management and setting the groups of most important products. The second part of the article contains the analysis of surveys results. They were conducted in...

In this article main issues concerning distribution in internet shops were analysed. The kinds of distribution were described and the problem with personal receipt of bought goods was examined. Also the problem of division concerning delivery costs between consumer and internet shop were...

Are there economies of scale to data in internet search? This paper is first to use real search engine query logs to empirically investigate how data drives the quality of internet search results. We find evidence that the quality of search results improve with more data on previous searches....

Rapid development and growth of Internet facilitate business and transforms today's economies. Nowadays is almost impossible to do business or some other activities without Internet usage. Internet enables transactions among clients and stores, which has positive impact on doing business....

This essay discusses two immanent challenges for competition policy in online e-commerce markets: the platform character and the role of personalized data. Both phenomena are briefly described from an economic perspective (section 2 and 3) with a focus on how they affect and change competition...

We examine the pricing trends in the online toy markets by using panel data regression models with error components and serial correlation. Our results indicate that both online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRS) and dotcoms charge similar prices on average, and that over time their...

Generaly said, trust is an important factor in many social interactions. Because on-line transactions are characterized by uncertainty and anonymity, trust and risk are essential elements in e-commerce and e-government services. There is a statistically significant relationship between trust and...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of price dispersion in homogeneous goods markets. Modern economic theory suggests that inevitable asymmetries of information in markets lead to an equilibrium in which price dispersion is present even when goods are perfectly homogenous. In...

The internet represents the most important technological event which marks the borderline between the second and the third millennium. It can be said that the internet changes the history of humanity. At present, the evolution of electronic commerce is extremely dynamic at a global level....