dataset on 1998-99 Internet shopping behavior and use of information intermediaries by over 30,000 households to examine … strategy and the evolution of market structure. If information weakens the pull of brand, then Internet retailing may grow less …

Our study provides the first census of the dispersion of Internet technology to commercial establishments in the United … States. We distinguish between participation, that is, use of the Internet because it is necessary for all business (e ….g., email and browsing) and enhancement, that is, adoption of Internet technology to enhance computing processes for competitive …

important ways. This article shows that computerization and use of the Internet are associated with greater hours worked as well …, that trade unions have begun to use the Internet as a tool for servicing members and carrying their message to the public …

Internet and communications investment in schools starting in 1998. The program subsidized spending by 20-90 percent, depending … Internet investment. The implied first-dollar price elasticity of demand for Internet investment is between -0.9 and -2.2 and … about 66 percent more Internet classrooms than there would have been without the subsidy. Using a variety of test score …

Despite the interest in measuring price sensitivity of online consumers, most academic work on Internet commerce is … rise of Internet sales. The estimates suggest that prices online are much more variable than the CPI, which understates …

Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …

This paper addresses the question of how much the Internet lowers prices for new cars and why. Using a large dataset of … consumer pays by approximately 2.2%. This suggests that consumers who use an Internet referral service are not those who would … have obtained a low price even in the absence of the Internet. Instead, our finding is consistent with consumers choosing …

This paper provides one potential explanation for the rise, persistence and eventual fall of internet stock prices … explanation is provided by exploring the behavior of internet stock prices during the period January 1998 to November 2000. In … particular, we document four important elements to our story: (i) the high level of internet stock prices given their underlying …