The Effects of Market-enabling Internet Agents on Competition and Prices

The Effects of Market-enabling Internet Agents on Competition and Prices
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市场赋能互联网代理对竞争和价格的影响

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发表时间:
2001
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J. Electron. Commer. Res.
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通讯作者:
Ian MacInnes
Ian MacInnes
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作者:
Kevin Crowston;Ian MacInnes

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The Internet offers a vision of ubiquitous electronic commerce. A particularly useful feature is the ability to automate the search for price or other information across multiple vendors by using an “agent” to retrieve relevant information. The use of agents has the potential to dramatically reduce buyers’ search costs. We develop a framework that suggests that vendors who sell products with many differentiating factors beyond price will tend to accept agents, while vendors of commodities or branded goods will tend to resist them unless they have lower
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