scholarly journals DID THE EURO FOSTER ONLINE PRICE COMPETITION? EVIDENCE FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PRICE COMPARISON SITE

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL R. BAYE ◽  
J. RUPERT J. GATTI ◽  
PAUL KATTUMAN ◽  
JOHN MORGAN
Keyword(s):  
Price Competition ◽  
Comparison Site ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
International Price

scholarly journals Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preferences in Internet Purchasing

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Ellison ◽  
Sara Fisher Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
State Level ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Sales Tax ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Comparison Site ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
Memory Modules ◽  
Retail Demand

Data on memory modules sales are used to explore aspects of e-retail demand. Aggregate sales are examined in state-level regressions. Discrete choice techniques are used to examine (incomplete) hourly sales data from a price comparison site. We find a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from offline retailers, suggesting substantial online-offline substitution and the importance of tax avoidance motives. Geography matters in two ways: consumers prefer purchasing from firms in nearby states and appear to have a separate preference for buying from in-state firms. (JEL D12, H25, H71, L81)

scholarly journals Price Comparison, Price Competition, And The Effects Of ShopBots

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten A. Passyn ◽  
Memo Diriker ◽  
Robert B. Settle
Keyword(s):  
Price Competition ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Future Price ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
The Past ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
The Impact

Two ShopBots were used to determine high-to-low price dispersion for identical models of 25 consumer durables, in 2007 and again in 2011, revealing substantial but declining price dispersion ratios. A survey of 1,135 American online shoppers revealed their dependence on ShopBots and frequency of other online shopping actions. Typical respondent reported they "very often" used search sites to locate what they wanted. Nearly 30 percent used the most often named price comparison site, Yahoo! Shopping, in the past year, suggesting substantial potential for future price rationalization. Several customer relationship management tools online merchants might use to avoid the resulting direct price competition are discussed. Finally, the impact of m-commerce, tablets, and apps on online price comparison behavior is explored.

Buying Online: An Analysis of Shopbot Visitors

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Dulleck ◽  
Franz Hackl ◽  
Bernhard Weiss ◽  
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Lower Price ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Product Reliability ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Comparison Site ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
Robust Evidence

Abstract We conduct an empirical study on the search and purchasing behavior of buyers on an Austrian price comparison site. On such a market a consumer typically searches for the cheapest price of a given product. Reliability and service of the supplier, however, are other important characteristics of an offer. We find robust evidence of consumer behavior that can be described as a two-stage procedure: shoppers first select a group of candidate offers based on the price only; then, in the actual buying decision consumers tradeoff a lower price with higher reliability of the retailer.

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