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Price Setting in Online Markets: Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-Border Integration

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Sasha Talavera Orcid Logo

American Economic Review, Volume: 107, Issue: 1, Pages: 249 - 282

Swansea University Author: Sasha Talavera Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1257/aer.20141127

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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, prices in online markets are more flexible and exhibit stronger pass-through (60-75 percent) and faster convergence (...

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ISSN: 0002-8282
Published: 2017
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