Why do firms compete on price comparison websites? The impact on productivity, profits, and wages
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Keywords
Online retailing; e-commerce; price comparison websites; productivity; value added.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2021-10-11 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CFN-2021-10-11 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-COM-2021-10-11 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EFF-2021-10-11 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-PAY-2021-10-11 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
- NEP-REG-2021-10-11 (Regulation)
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