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barriers they perceive to adopt the Internet, and the types of e-commerce activities they implement in their companies. In … results obtained show that the motivation for entrepreneurship based on family tradition is related to less Internet adoption … with Internet use for relationship purposes with clients and suppliers. This information is considered relevant in …
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Electronic commerce in B2C area is developing rapidly in Europe in last decade and it became respective proportion in retail revenue generation in all EU countries. More than a half of population in EU are online shoppers. Books are important product category. On the other hand, consumer...
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This paper addresses the pricing problem of an online service marketplace under asymmetric information. An example is an online learning platform such as Coursera that provides courses from suppliers (in this case, universities) to learners. We focus on the matching function of the marketplace...
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The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is surprisingly scarce. In this paper we document that data as an input into machine learning tasks display features that support the...
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The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is surprisingly scarce. In this paper we document that data as an input into machine learning tasks display features that support the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031647
E-commerce represents an essential part of modern business, with a significant growth in recent years. Recent events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have led to a surge in online shopping and a rapid shift towards e-commerce, creating a new normal in the retail industry. To succeed in this...
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This paper examines the relation between prices in conventional stores and on the Internet. Main results from the … to Internet reaches a critical level, ii) the relation between prices depends on convenience costs of shopping in regular … stores as well as on transport and navigation costs for goods bought over Internet, iii) retailers who only sell through …
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The impact of product variety on welfare has received little attention in the electronic commerce literature. The problem with product variety is that more variety does not necessarily imply higher welfare. This paper finds the conditions under which more variety, if caused by lower fixed costs,...
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variation in consumer's use of the Internet for tasks like “porn” and “cat videos” as measured by Google Trends. My estimates …
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An Internet retailer's (e-tailer's) outstanding virtual location enhances the probability of being noticed by potential … analysis, an e-tailer's Internet search engine rank as well as its advertising activities in search engines serve as proxies …
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