| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w10570 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 10570 |
| Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet | |
| Glenn Ellison; Sara Fisher Ellison | |
| 发表日期 | 2004-06-21 |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the competition between a group of Internet retailers that operate in an environment where a price search engine plays a dominant role. We show that for some products in this environment, the easy price search makes demand tremendously price-sensitive. Retailers, though, engage in obfuscation---practices that frustrate consumer search or make it less damaging to firms---resulting in much less price sensitivity on other products. We discuss several models of obfuscation and examine its effects on demand and markups empirically. Observed markups are adequate to allow efficient online retailers to survive. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w10570 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568199 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Glenn Ellison,Sara Fisher Ellison. Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet. 2004. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w10570.pdf（1163KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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