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Estimating the Impact of E-Commerce on Retail Exit and Entry Using Google Trends

Vitt, David - 2017

I address the degree to which variation in exposure to e-commerce is associated with entry and exit in the retail industry at the county level. To measure exposure to e-commmerce, I rely on within-state variation in relative search frequency for the phrase “amazon prime” as reported by...

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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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Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers

Chava, Sudheer - 2019

Using an employer-employee payroll dataset for approximately 2.6 million retail workers, we analyze the impact of the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce retailer's fulfillment centers on the income and employment of workers at geographically proximate brick-and-mortar retail stores. We find...

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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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Pricing, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure Online : Evidence from Book Retailing

Smith, Howard W.; Latcovich, Simon - 2014

While online consumers are less concerned than traditional consumers about firm location, they may be more concerned about unobservable quality and, to signal this, online retailers rely more on advertising than traditional retailers. Imperfect price competition may arise because of vertical...

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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Ellison, Glenn; Ellison, Sara Fisher - 2015

Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from offline retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...

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Competitive Dynamics of Online and Brick-and-Mortar Retail Prices

Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M.; Maloney, Mame - 2022

This paper analyzes the competitive interplay of prices amongst retail channels: offline (brick-and-mortar) and online (such as retailers’ websites and online marketplaces). We find evidence of a close competitive relationship between the two channels, in which prices correspond tightly across...

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Impact of E-Commerce (Online Retail) on Small Businesses in Gandhinagar : Offline Retailers’ Perspective

Trivedi, Jigna C. - 2021

, increasing use of devices such as smart phones and tablets, access to the internet through broadband, 3G/4G, favoured … demographics and a growing internet user base have all contributed to this growth.Indian customers prefer shopping through E … but the purchase orders are often online. To sustain in the internet world, retailers are advised to be Omni …

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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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