The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …

There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers inestablished industries … Internet lowers prices. This paper answers this questionfor the auto retailing industry. We use direct measures of search … behavior and consumercharacteristics to investigate how the Internet affects negotiated prices. We show that the Internetlowers …

We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to … draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for cities. We document that larger markets have … content, suggesting the Internet is a complement to cities. Yet, holding local online content constant, people are less likely …

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 …

The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …

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 …

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 …