Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce

E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

This paper examines the effect of the advent and diffusion of e-commerce on supply-side industry structure. We specify a general industry model involving consumers with differing search costs buying products from heterogeneous producers. We interpret e-commerce as a reduction in consumers’ search costs. We show how it reallocates market shares from highcost to low-cost producers. We test the mo...

Structure, Conduct and Performance of Fish Market in Central Ethiopia

The study aimed at analyzing the structure, conduct and performance of fish market in Lake Zeway, Central part of Ethiopia. A total of 24 traders from 6 markets were selected for the study purposively. Data analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics, for Structure, Conduct and Performance (SCP) approach. According to the results, there were five kinds of fish marketing chains in the ...

Market Structure and Price Adjustment in the Iranian Tea Market

Market Formation and Fixed Income E-Commerce

The fixed-income markets are enormous, however innovation in this sector has trailed that in the much smaller equities markets. Recently, a number of alternate trading systems (ATS) have been introduced, many of which use the Internet as an enabling infrastructure. Despite the size and impact of these markets, there is a surprising lack of IS research in this field, yet the context provides a p...

Market Transparency Strategy in E-commerce: Modeling and Empirical Analysis

Internet technology has transformed the nature of business-to-consumer transaction-making practices in many industries. One of the significant impacts has occurred with respect to the transparency of markets for end-consumers. Market transparency is defined as the level of availability and accessibility of information about products and prices. We show how firms can leverage different ways to r...