The Economics of the Internet and E-commerce

Contents THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL COMPETITION: MARKET EFFICIENCY AND VALUE CHAIN RECONFIGURATION Anita Elberse, Partick Barwise and Kathy Hammond PRICE COMPETITION BETWEEN PURE PLAY VS. BRICKS-AND-CLICKS E-TRAILERS: ANALYTICAL MODEL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS Xing Pan, Venkatesh Shankar and Brian T. Ratchford PRICE DISPERSION THEN AND NOW: EVIDENCE FROM RETAIL AND E-TAIL MARKETS Patrick Scholten and S. Adam Smith BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS E-COMMERCE: VALUE CREATION, VALUE CAPTURE AND VALUTATION Luis Garicano and Steven N. Kaplan TRUST AMONG STRANGERS IN INTERNET TRANSACTIONS: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF EBAY'S REPUTATION SYSTEM Paul Resnick and Richard Zeckhauser TRANSACTION INNOVATION AND THE ROLE OF THE FIRM Daniel F. Spulber COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS IN THE INFORMATION AGE: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY John Morgan ANALYZING WEBSITE CHOICE USING CLICKSTREAM DATA Avi Goldfarb CONSUMER ACQUISITION OF PRODUCT INFORMATION AND SUBSEQUENT PURCHASE CHANNEL DECISIONS Michael R. Ward and Michelle Morganosky AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE INTERNET QoS CHANNELS Dale O. Stahl, Rui Dai and Andrew B. Whinston

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