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Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Yu (Jeffrey) Hu; Smith, Michael D. - In: Management Science 49 (2003) 11, pp. 1580-1596

product variety on the Internet is the ability of online retailers to catalog, recommend, and provide a large number of …

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Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Smith, Michael D. - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 4, pp. 563-585

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically … analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products---books and CDs. Using a … data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …

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Converting Pirates Without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy

Danaher, Brett; Dhanasobhon, Samita; Smith, Michael D.; … - In: Marketing Science 29 (2010) 6, pp. 1138-1151

The availability of digital channels for media distribution has raised many important questions for marketers, notably, whether digital distribution channels will cannibalize physical sales and whether legitimate digital distribution channels will dissuade consumers from using (illegitimate)...

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Gaining Trust Through Online Privacy Protection: Self-Regulation, Mandatory Standards, or Caveat Emptor

Tang, Zhulei; Hu, Yu Jeffrey; Smith, Michael D. - 2007

Trust is particularly important in online markets to facilitate the transfer of sensitive consumer information to online retailers. In electronic markets, various proposals have been made to facilitate these information transfers. We develop analytic models of hidden information to analyze the...

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The Impact of Shopbot Use on Prices and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Online Book Retailing

Tang, Zhulei; Smith, Michael D.; Montgomery, Alan - 2007

The growth of Internet price search tools, notably shopbots, has reduced consumers’ search costs for price and some … examines the impact of changes in shopbot use over time on pricing behavior in the Internet book market. Using price data …

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Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Smith, Michael D. - 2000

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically … analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a … data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441259

Internet adoption and the survival of print newspapers : a country-level examination

Cho, Daegon; Smith, Michael D.; Zentner, Alejandro - In: Information economics and policy : IEP 37 (2016), pp. 13-19

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Piracy and copyright enforcement mechanisms

Danaher, Brett; Smith, Michael D.; Telang, Rahul - In: Innovation policy and the economy 14 (2013), pp. 25-61

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Do search engines influence media piracy? : evidence from a randomized study

Sivan, Liron; Smith, Michael D.; Telang, Rahul - In: Management information systems : mis quarterly 43 (2019) 4, pp. 1143-1154

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The effect of subscription video-on-demand on piracy : evidence from a household-level randomized experiment

Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Ferreira, Pedro; Smith, Michael D. - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 64 (2018) 12, pp. 5610-5630

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