The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …

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 …

implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction … use our theoretical insights to examine whether leading Internet platforms have non-temporary market power. Based on this …

We investigate how online price dispersion has evolved since the bursting of the Internet bubble by comparing price … online price dispersion declined between 2000 and 2001 when there was a shakeout in Internet retailing, it increased from …-tailers, increased steadily during 2000-2003. These findings suggest that online price dispersion is persistent even as Internet markets …

We investigate how online price dispersion has evolved since the bursting of the Internet bubble by comparing price …, although online price dispersion declined between 2000 and 2001 when there was a shakeout in Internet retailing, it increased …-tailers, increased steadily during 2000-2003. These findings suggest that online price dispersion is persistent even as Internet markets …

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 …