Four years of EU membership has brought new opportunities and challenges for local companies and public administration in member countries. New small and medium companies (SMB) emerged in the neighboring regions cross over the former frontiers, there are new clusters using inter-regional...

Das Ziel des folgenden Papiers besteht darin, erstens die Ergebnisse der Fallstudien im Bereich Electronic Commerce in der Schweiz zusammenzufassen und zweitens, wichtige Lehren aus diesen „Case studies“ zu ziehen. Folgende wichtigste Lehren zur optimalen Praxis von E-Commerce lassen sich...

This paper discusses what the growth of e-commerce means for tax policy and administration, both within countries and between them. Although the fiscal implications of such commerce as yet remain limited, the future may be different and the issues are important. The issues are first discussed...

The modern information-communication technologies, as the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) facilitate new approaches to promote companies and improving sell their products and services. This paper presents an empirical review of the Internet application in the 100 large Croatian companies. The...

Internet auctions on eBay and Yahoo allow sellers to list their auctions with a Buy-Now option. In such auctions the seller sets a buy price at which a bidder may purchase the item immediately and end the auction. In the eBay version of a buy-now auction, the buy-now option disappears as soon as...

This paper studies the effect of sales tax changes on internet and catalog sales. We collect sales data from a retailer that sells its products through its internet and catalog channels. We analyze the retailer's sales before and after a major tax cut in one of the largest metropolitan areas in...

The study is dedicated to understand the effects of Internet banner ad and the users’ perceptions. A lab experiment was used to study the effects of language, product involvement, shape of ad, and type of ad. The subjects were college students in Ecuador. Each experimental website contained a...

The widespread adoption of technology and electronic media has dramatically altered the set of products consumers compare before making a purchase decision. Online platforms have succeeded at drawing linkages among products by highlighting those that are preferred, evaluated, or purchased...

E-commerce and e-business are considered by some as a whole new dimension in terms of economics, while at the same time many professionals see it as a natural evolution of the same raw, basic, traditional economic principles. Although this was the main concept, together with its applicability...

La Revista Integración & Comercio del BID incluye artículos referidos a las distintas manifestaciones del proceso de integración en América Latina y el Caribe, a la integración hemisférica y, también, a los procesos con igual orientación que se llevan a cabo en otras partes del mundo. En...