A brief survey of the economics of price dispersion, written for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Journal of Economic Literature classification numbers: C72, D43, D82, D83. Price dispersion occurs when different sellers offer different prices for the same good in a given market. Thus, it differs from price discrimination under which a single seller offers different prices ...

This paper examines why both B2B and B2C small businesses adopt of E-commerce. It provides an examination of the association between B2B/B2C adoption and other organizational and managerial factors by questioning small business managers about business sector, market focus, gender of the CEO and educational level of the CEO. It also examines the groupings and priorities of criteria used in the d...

We have first demonstrated that Debreu’s view regarding the publication of The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1944 as the birth of modern mathematical economics is not convincing. In this paper, we have proposed the hypothesis that the coordinated research programs in the 1930’s, initiated by the Econometric Society and the Cowles Commission for Research...

Indonesia is one of the countries whose buying and selling activities have shifted from traditional to electronic ones. This evidenced by increasing prevalence e-commerce applications which are directly proportional number people who downloaded them. With so many out there, everyone has their own opinion when using application. can be seen in user ratings on each application, such as Tokopedia ...

A b s t r a c t The travel industry, one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world, appears particularly interesting in terms of the possibilities offered by electronic commerce. It is one of the industries where business is already conducted successfully on the Internet and where the importance of electronic commerce is likely to grow. In order to investigate the opportunities...

internet is integrated into nearly all aspects of activities including businesses. it is a medium that can be accessed anywhere. the advancement of internet has contributed to the development of electronic commerce and trust has been suggested in the literature to play an essential role in the development of e-commerce. lately, e-commerce has also taken placed in a new platform, social networki...

In spite of sonic pessimistic attitudes towards methodology of economics, it has succeeded as a central theme in numerous books, refereed journals, international conferences and symposiums whose volume is increasing at an unprecedented rate. The proliferation of methodological literature also is accompanied by a proliferation of issues that concern: the goals of economics, realism of economics,...