Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

By Austan Goolsbee, J. Chevalier. 2002

189 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Marketing, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f0fc90af13955e135555d182e24dd209956990bb

Citations in the corpus

• Recommendation Networks and the Long Tail of Electronic Commerce (2010, unknown): “A formula to convert SalesRank information into demand information was first introduced by Goolsbee and Chevalier (2003).”
• Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior (2012, unknown): “We observe sampling probabilities and prices, so we can directly calculate the ck’s defined in equation (5).”
• Using price distributions to estimate search costs (2006, unknown): “An important early result in the sequential-search literature is the “Diamond (1971) paradox” that the equilibrium price distribution in a sequential-search economy with homogeneous consumers facing identical and positive search costs is degenerate at the monopoly price (i.”
• Is Oprah Contagious? Identifying Demand Spillovers in Online Networks (2012, unknown): “Demand estimates computed using Amazon's reported SalesRank we collected from their XML feed and the demand estimation methods suggested by Goolsbee and Chevalier 2003 and Brynjolfsson et al. (2003) .”
• The Different Roles of Product Originality and Usefulness in Generating Word of Mouth (2011, unknown): “Because sales rank is an ordinal measure, we converted it into a measure of demand using the algorithm developed by Chevalier and Goolsbee (2003) and parameters estimated by Brynjolfsson, Hu, and Smith (2003).”
• Retailer Pricing and Competitive Effects (2009, unknown): “Specifically, Chevalier and Goolsbee (2003) find that the online price elasticity of demand for books is about − 3.5 for Barnes and Noble but only about − .45 for Amazon.”
• Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact (2006, unknown): “Papers in this literature have shown that BarnesandNoble.com seems to face much stronger competition from Amazon.com than Amazon does from Barnes & Noble (Chevalier and Goolsbee 2003).”
• Do online reviews affect product sales? The role of reviewer characteristics and temporal effects (2008, unknown): “Previous research has studied the impact of online product reviews on product sales with a variety of regression models [14, 15, 26] .”