Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced
the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics …

In the increasingly complex retailing environment, more and more retailers operate in more
than one channel, such as brick-and-mortar, catalogs, and online. Success in this dynamic …

Online prices are increasingly used for measurement and research applications, yet little is
known about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take …

The introduction of tablets in online retailing has created an additional touchpoint through
which e-commerce firms can interact with consumers. In this paper, we seek to understand …

Our paper shows that the parameters in existing theoretical models of channel substitution
such as offline transportation cost, online disutility cost, and the prices of online and offline …

State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of
state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of …

A key question for Internet commerce is the nature of competition with traditional brick-and-
mortar retailers. Although traditional retailers vastly outsell Internet retailers in most product …

We estimate the sensitivity of Internet retail purchasing to sales taxes using eBay data. Our
first approach exploits the fact that a seller's location—and therefore the applicable tax rate …

Many of us have grown used to, tired of, and finally downright skeptical of claims of the
transformative powers of the Internet. It was to usher in the New Economy, but we seem …

Consumers nominally pay the consumption tax, but theoretical and empirical evidence is
mixed on whether corporations partly shoulder this burden, thereby affecting corporate …