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Title
PRICE AND PRICE DISPERSION ON THE WEB: EVIDENCE FROM THE ONLINE BOOK INDUSTRY OF TAIWAN
Creator
Creator Name
LIN, YU-CHEN LIN, YU-CHEN
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Soochow University
Creator Name
CHEN, CHIANG-MING CHEN, CHIANG-MING
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
National Chi Nan University
Key Word
internet
price dispersion
information
search
JEL
M21
M31
Abstract
We study how the levels of market price and price dispersion are associated with consumersʼ search costs and the level of competitiveness in the online market using data collected from the online book industry in Taiwan. Our empirical results show that prices and price dispersion are lower for books that are more often purchased or advertised. Moreover, we find that the big three bookstores and the fringe bookstores price differently when facing competition from their rivals and that price dispersion tend to be lower with the number of competing bookstores.
Publisher
Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2014-06
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
departmental bulletin paper
Version Type
VoR
selfDOI
10.15057/26811
ISSN
0018-280x
NCID
AA00207547
Source Title
Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics
Volume Number
55
Issue Number
1
Page Start
51
Page End
70
Appears in Collections
Vol. 55, no. 1 (Jun. 2014)
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/26811