The shipping strategies of internet retailers: Evidence from internet book retailing

Emin Dinlersoz and Han Li

Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), 2006, vol. 4, issue 4, 407-438

Abstract: Managing the shipment of goods to consumers is one of the central aspects of retail competition on the internet. In this article, we analyze internet retailers’ shipping strategies using data from the internet book retailing industry. We find that, controlling for a variety of observable firm characteristics, firms with lower product prices offer lower shipping fees and higher quality shipping in terms of average delivery time, compared to firms with higher product prices. These patterns cannot be readily reconciled with a large class of models of competition under perfect consumer information. Theories based on imperfect consumer information can explain the findings better. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006

Keywords: E-commerce; Shipping and delivery; Price dispersion; Imperfect information; Retail competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/s11129-006-9010-4

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