TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorodnichenko,Yuriy
AU  - Talavera,Oleksandr
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Price Setting in Online Markets: Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-border Integration 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2014; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the U.S. and Canada, a rapidly growing segment of the retail sector. Relative to prices in regular stores, prices in online markets are more flexible as well as exhibit stronger pass-through (60-75 percent) and faster convergence (half-life less than 2 months) in response to movements of the nominal exchange rate. Multiple margins of adjustment (frequency of price changes, direction of price changes, size of price changes, exit of sellers) are active in the process of responding to nominal exchange rate shocks.  Furthermore, we use the richness of our dataset to show that degree of competition, stickiness of prices, synchronization of price changes, reputation of sellers, and returns to search effort are important determinants of pass-through and speed of price adjustment for international price differentials
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w20406
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w20406
ER  -