An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High Frequency Price Information

We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity-type memory module. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms’ sales. Using a...

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Main Authors: Ellison, Sara Fisher, Snyder, Christopher M.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65116