Der vorliegende Beitrag betrachtet zentrale Aspekte des Lebensmittel-Onlinehandels in Deutschland. Die Entwicklung hin zu einer größeren Vielfalt in der Art und Weise wie Lebensmittel beschafft werden können, ist sehr komplex und unterliegt zahlreichen Trends. Technologischer Fortschritt und...

We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...

Digitalization is a set part of today's society and even luxury brands feel the increasing need of a digital presence. More than half of all consumers of luxury goods buy them online on a regular basis. The luxury fashion brand Chanel still abstains from offering their most important items in...

For 22 years, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been discussing how to govern e-commerce and the data that underpins it. In 2019, some 74 (now 86) nations began to negotiate e-commerce. These talks are conducted in secret and little is known about how they are progressing....

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

Relying on a unique and arguably representative sample of transaction e-commerce companies, this paper takes a closer look at whether and how companies could be profitable on-line. This analysis clearly demonstrates that a non-trivial set of winners are emerging, which combine both strong...

Die Geschäftabwicklung über elektronische Medien d.h. E-commerce zwischenUnternehmen und Konsumenten ist auch im Nahrungsmittelhandel ein Themageworden. Verschiedene Internet-Portale bündeln Angebote von direkt vermark-tenden ökologisch und konventionell produzierenden Landwirten,...