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reduction in search costs on the Internet relative to the physical channel would cause both price and price dispersion to fall …
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The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … comparisons online. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact that the rise of Internet comparison shopping sites has … group using the Internet reduces average insurance prices for the group by as much as 5 percent. Further evidence indicates …
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This paper investigates the effect of Internet car referral services on dealer pricing of automobiles in California …
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sold in 29 European, Asian, and North American markets via the Internet by Spain's second largest apparel manufacture … cross-country price variations of identical items purchased via the Internet by consumers who do not take advantage of …
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As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …
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The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …
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We correct and extend the results of Gans (2015) regarding the effects of net neutrality regulation on equilibrium outcomes in settings where a content provider sells its services to consumers for a fee. We examine both pricing and investment effects. We extend the earlier paper's result that...
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