Arbeitspapier

Competition between offline and online retailers with heterogeneous customers

We consider the spatial competition between two traditional physical (or offline) retailers and an Internet (or online) retailer where the efficiency of the latter differs from that of the former. We assume consumers are heterogeneous across two dimensions: (i) the costs of traveling to either of the offline retailers and (ii) the costs of purchasing from the online retailer. Both dimensions depend on the spatial location of consumers and are independent of each other. We show that the online retailer maximizes its profit at an intermediate level of the consumer disutility of online purchase when its efficiency is low.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 1056

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Thema
e-commerce
game theory
horizontal differentiation
vertical differentiation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Colombo, Stefano
Matsushima, Noriaki
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(wo)
Osaka
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Colombo, Stefano
  • Matsushima, Noriaki
  • Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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