We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the United States and Canada,
which is a rapidly growing segment of the retail sector. Relative to prices in regular stores …

The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area
for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this …

This report was commissioned by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) from London Economics in
association with Steffen Huck and Jidong Zhou (University College London). It examines the …

In this paper we use data on French export prices at the disaggregated firm and product
level to evaluate the effect of economic integration on price convergence. We use the …

Not so long ago individuals used atlases, books, magazines, newspapers, and
encyclopedias to find content. To locate businesses and their products, it was customary to …

This article examines price convergence in the European Union (EU) car market over the
period 1995 to 2005. We find that there is a clear evidence of price convergence among the …

We study the effects of introducing a Most‐Favored Customer (MFC) clause on price
competition among major consumer electronics retailers. Our data spans the periods before …

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, I document the impact of the Euro changeover on
(relative) prices. The impact was mostly transitory, where prices returned to their pre …

The issue of price disparities in the EU commodity markets has given rise to a fair amount of
empirical and theoretical research. Price convergence studies were generally on the …

In this chapter, I review prices and firms' pricing strategies on the Internet through a broad
survey of recent literatures on economics, information system, and marketing. In both …