TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alcedo,Joel
AU  - Cavallo,Alberto
AU  - Dwyer,Bricklin
AU  - Mishra,Prachi
AU  - Spilimbergo,Antonio
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - E-commerce During Covid: Stylized Facts from 47 Economies 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - February 2022; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with higher pre-pandemic e-commerce shares, exacerbating the digital divide across economies. Overall, the latest data suggest that these spikes in online spending shares are dissipating at the aggregate level, though there is variation across industries. In particular, the share of online spending in professional services and recreation has fallen below its pre-pandemic trend, but we observe a longer-lasting shift to digital in retail and restaurants
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w29729
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29729
ER  -