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E-commerce and prices : theory and evidence
Friberg, Richard (contributor);  … - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. September 8, 2000
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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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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Amazon effects in Canadian online retail firm-product-level data
Chernoff, Alex W. - 2019
I use firm-product-level data for Canadian online retailers to study how product scope (the average number of product categories per firm) evolved from 1999 to 2012. During this period, product scope dropped monotonically from 59 to 5 product categories. Using a theoretical model of...
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CP ALL and the case of value web creation
Michael, Bryane; Hartwell, Christopher A.; Korovkin, … - 2015
The two-dimensional value chain model has served business theorists for decades. Yet, we know that integrated companies in emerging markets combine many dimensions of service and product to generate customer value. What does CP All teach us about the new "value web" concept? Using a simple...
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Success of firm strategies in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018
The choice of an appropriate e-commerce strategy is crucial for the survival of online stores in B2C e-commerce business. We use a comprehensive data set from the Austrian price search engine geizhals.at to identify successful e-commerce strategies. An e-commerce strategy is a set of choices...
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Assessing e-commerce productivity for French micro firms using propensity score matching
Ouaida, Fadila; El Hajjar, Samer - 2018
The benefits of e-commerce are apparent not only for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large firms, but also for micro firms. Hence, implementing e-sales for micro firms is worth exploring. This study examines the relationship between the use of e-commerce and productivity implications on...
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Pricing in retail markets with low search costs : evidence from a price comparison website
Lindgren, Charlie; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Rudholm, Niklas - 2021
Price comparison websites, where consumers can compare prices at a search cost that is close to zero, have become increasingly common around the world. Using daily information on prices, click-throughs, and the number of retailers for a sample of consumer electronics and durable goods over a...
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Price matching in online retail
Bottasso, Anna; Robbiano, Simone; Marocco, Paolo - 2023
We analyze a sample of consumer-electronics products sold by the US NewEgg online-retailer to study the impact of Price Matching Guarantees (PMGs) policies on prices. By applying aDifference-in-Differences approach,we find that prices of the policy-adopting retailer increase by 4.7% during the...
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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B2B e-commerce marketplaces and MSMES : evidence of global value chain facilitation?
Ladrière, Maxime; Lundquist, Kathryn; Ye, Qing - 2022 - Manuscript date: 3 February 2022
In theory, e-commerce marketplaces connect buyers and sellers, open trade opportunities, and reduce transaction costs thereby creating opportunities for more inclusive trade and even GVC participation, especially for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Further, there is some...
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