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Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2015

. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher …

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Consumer search : what can we learn from pre-purchase data?

Honka, Elisabeth; Seiler, Stephan; Ursu, Raluca - 2023

market outcomes. We provide an overview of these three areas with a particular emphasis on online and offline retailing. …

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Shop around and you pay more

Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw; Heravi, Saeed M.; … - 2014

We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...

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Apparent competition in two-sided platforms

Guven, Gokhan; Inci, Eren; Russo, Antonio - 2017

We study a platform's design of membership and transaction fees when sellers compete and buyers cannot observe the prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them transaction fees that increase with sales revenue, and...

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Sales taxation, spatial agglomeration, and the Internet

Agrawal, David R.; Wildasin, David E. - 2019

Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...

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The impact of private label introduction on assortment, prices, and profits of retailers

Ma, Meilin; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

accounting for assortment adjustments of national brands (NBs) in retail stores. Using a detailed dataset on the U.S. beef market …, we find that, when PLs are added to the low-priced market segment, stores reposition NBs to further differentiate them … from the PL and remove NBs from the same market segment. However, if PLs are introduced into the high-priced segment, NBs …

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From intent to inertia : experimental evidence from the retail electricity market

Gravert, Christina - 2024

knowledge of the retail electricity market, their beliefs, preferences, and intentions to switch providers. Crucially, I can …

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The pandemic cash and retail payment behaviour : insights from the future of payments databas

Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock to retail payment behaviour. How have the changes differed across countries? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new "Future of Payments" database on retail payment behaviour for up to 95 countries over September...

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Welfare implications of supplier encroachment with consumer shopping costs

Caprice, Stéphane; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

improve market outcomes if the value of the supplier's product offering is sufficiently high. …

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Pay what you want as a marketing strategy in monopolistic and competitive markets

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - 2014

customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted … seller competes with a traditional seller. Finally, we endogenize the market structure and let sellers choose their pricing … in the market can explain why and how much buyers pay voluntarily to a PWYW seller. We find that PWYW can be viable on a …

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