TY - UNPB
T1 - Market Entry in E-Commerce
AU - Kummer, Michael
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation methods, which, having only recently been introduced to IO, aim at using a minimum of modeling assumptions. Thus, being able to trace the behavior of roughly 350 start-up companies and 600 in-cumbents, we investigate whether start-ups have a different composition of product-portfolios, charge lower prices and offer fewer goods.
AB - We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation methods, which, having only recently been introduced to IO, aim at using a minimum of modeling assumptions. Thus, being able to trace the behavior of roughly 350 start-up companies and 600 in-cumbents, we investigate whether start-ups have a different composition of product-portfolios, charge lower prices and offer fewer goods.
UR - http://www.netinst.org/Kasy_Kummer_08-23.pdf
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Net-Institute Working Paper
BT - Market Entry in E-Commerce
ER -
