Price movements in the Japanese online home electronics market

Tomonari Akimoto; Fumiko Takeda

doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2008.07.001

Price movements in the Japanese online home electronics market

Tomonari Akimoto, Fumiko Takeda

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Abstract

This article investigates the price movements of home electronics products listed on a Japanese price comparison site. Our findings are as follows. (1) Price dispersion increases at earlier stages of the product life cycle and decreases at later stages. (2) The size of the price changes is larger in earlier stages than in the later stages. (3) The lowest prices change very frequently. (4) The lowest price decreases outnumber the lowest price increases. (5) The size of the lowest price changes is very small and is smaller when decreases occur than when increases occur.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	28-36
Number of pages	9
Journal	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2008.07.001
Publication status	Published - 2009 Jan
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Asymmetric pricing
Comparison sites
Economics
Empirical research
Internet
Law of one price
Price dispersion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications
Marketing
Management of Technology and Innovation

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Price movements in the Japanese online home electronics market

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