Price dispersion, chain heterogeneity, and search in online grocery markets

Abstract This paper identifies patterns of cross-sectional and temporal price dispersion—in the Spanish online grocery retail market—and evaluates the extent to which search costs and chain heterogeneity explain such dispersion. We build a data set comprising 836,074 prices for the most popular groc...

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Main Authors: Xulia González, Daniel Miles-Touya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-01-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-018-0172-6