This paper considers identification and estimation of a general model for online price competition. We show that when the number of competing firms is unknown, the underlying parameters of the model can still be identified and estimated employing recently developed results on measurement errors....

Evolution of the market for air-travel information / Michael Doane, Kenneth Hendricks, R. Preston McAfee -- Online price dispersion within and between seven European countries / J. Rupert, J. Gatti, Paul Kattuman -- Price dispersion, product characteristics, and firms behaviors : stylized facts...

We study the impact of the Euro on prices charged by online retailers within the EU. Our data spans the period before and after the Euro was introduced, covers a variety of products, and includes countries inside and outside of the Eurozone. After controlling for cost, demand, and market...

We analyze an oligopoly model of homogeneous product price competition that allows for discontinuities in demand and/or costs. Conditions under which only zero profit equilibrium outcomes obtain in such settings are provided. We then illustrate through a series of examples that the conditions...