E-Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 545, 2010, Pages 651-682

  Goldmanis, Maris ^a   Hortaçsu, Ali ^a   Syverson, Chad ^b   Emre, Önsel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Booth School of Business and NBER ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HETEROGENEITY; MARKET; MODEL TEST; RETAILING; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953909300     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02310.x     Document Type: Article

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