Neighborhood effects and trial on the Internet: Evidence from online grocery retailing

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 361-400

  Bell, David R ^a   Song, Sangyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete time hazard; Neighborhood effect; Random utility; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848823390     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-007-9025-5     Document Type: Article

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