The economic principles that underpin commercial transactions via electronic networks, and the many associated economic issues and controversies that e-commerce generates, are dizzying in their complexity. Now, to help advanced students and researchers make sense of an explosion of scholarship, Routledge announces e-Commerce Economics, a new title in its acclaimed Critical Concepts in Economics series. Edited by David VanHoose, a leading scholar in the field, e-Commerce Economics is a ‘mini library’ that brings together in four volumes the foundational and the very best cutting-edge research.
With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, e-Commerce Economics is an essential collection destined to be valued as a vital one-stop resource.
Volume I: Infrastructure, Markets, and Pricing
Infrastructure
1. David Mowery and Timothy Simcoe, ‘Is the Internet a U.S. Invention?—An Economic and Technological History of Computer Networking’, Research Policy, 2002, 31, 8/9, 1369–87.
2. Luis Garicano and Steven Kaplan, ‘The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs’, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2001, 49, 4, 463–85.
3. David Lucking-Reiley and Daniel Spulber, ‘Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2001, 15, 1, 55–68.
4. Serguiei Netessine and Nils Rudi, ‘Supply Chain Choice on the Internet’, Management Science, 2006, 52, 6, 844–64.
Network Externalities and Bandwagon Effects
5. Michael Katz and Carl Shapiro, ‘Network Externalities, Competition, and Compatibility’, American Economic Review, 1985, 75, 3, 424–40.
6. Venkatesh Shankar and Barry Bayus, ‘Network Effects and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of the Home Video Game Industry’, Strategic Management Journal, 2003, 24, 4, 375–84.
Two-Sided Markets
7. Bernard Caillaud and Bruno Jullien, ‘Chicken and Egg: Competition Among Intermediation Service Providers’, Rand Journal of Economics, 2003, 34, 309–28.
8. Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole, ‘Two-Sided Markets: A Progress Report’, Rand Journal of Economics, 2006, 37, 3, 645–67.
9. Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole, ‘Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets’, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, 4, 990–1029.
Pricing Virtual Products
10. Hal Varian, ‘Versioning Information Goods’, in Brian Kahin and Hal R. Varian (eds.), Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2000), pp. 190–202.
11. Alessandro Acquisti and Hal Varian, ‘Conditioning Prices on Purchase History’, Marketing Science, 2005, 24, 3, 367–81.
12. P. K. Kannan and Praveen Kopalle, ‘Dynamic Pricing on the Internet: Importance and Implications for Consumer Behavior’, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2001, 5, 3, 63–83.
Price Dispersion and Market Efficiency
13. Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, and Eric Wolff, ‘Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry’, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2001, 49, 4, 521–39.
14. Patrick Scholten and S. Adam Smith, ‘Price Dispersion Then and Now: Evidence from Retail and E-tail Markets’, in Michael R. Baye (ed.), The Economics of the Internet and E-Commerce (JAI, 2002), pp. 63–88.
15. Jeffrey Brown and Austan Goolsbee, ‘Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry’, Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110, 3, 481–507.
16. Michael Baye, John Morgan, and Patrick Scholten, ‘Price Dispersion in the Small and in the Large: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site’, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2004, 52, 4, 463–96.
17. Maris Goldmanis, Ali Hortaçsu, Chad Syverson, and Önsel Emre, ‘E-Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries’, Economic Journal, 2010, 120, 545, 651–82.
Volume II: Information, Search, and Finance
Incomplete Information, Search, and Welfare
18. J. Yannis Bakos, ‘Reducing Buyer Search Costs: Implications for Electronic Marketplaces’, Management Science, 1997, 43, 12, 1676–92.
19. Michael Baye and John Morgan, ‘Information Gatekeepers on the Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogenous Product Markets’, American Economic Review, 2001, 91, 3, 454–74.
20. Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison, ‘Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet’, Econometrica, 2009, 77, 2, 427–52.
21. Ginger Jin and Andrew Kato, ‘Price, Quality, and Reputation: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment’, Rand Journal of Economics, 2006, 37, 4, 983–1005.
22. Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Hu, and Michael D. Smith, ‘Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers’, Management Science, 2003, 49, 11, 1580–96.
23. Matthew Gentzkow, ‘Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarities’, American Economic Review, 2007, 97, 3, 713–44.
Internet Advertising
24. David Evans, ‘The Economics of the Online Advertising Industry’, Review of Network Economics, 2008, 7, 3, 359–91.
25. David Evans, ‘The Online Advertising Industry: Economics, Evolution, and Privacy’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009, 23, 3, 37–60.
26. Michael Baye and John Morgan, ‘Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets’, Management Science, 2009, 55, 7, 1139–51.
Internet Banking, Finance, and Payments
27. Robert DeYoung, ‘The Performance of Internet-Based Business Models: Evidence from the Banking Industry’, Journal of Business, 2005, 78, 3, 893–947.
28. James Choi, David Laibson, and Andrew Metrick, ‘How Does the Internet Affect Trading? Evidence from Behavior in 401(k) Plans’, Journal of Financial Economics, 2002, 64, 3, 397–421.
29. Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, ‘Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors’, Journal of Finance, 2000, 55, 2, 773–803.
30. Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, ‘The Internet and the Investor’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2001, 15, 1, 41–54.
31. Graeme Guthrie and Julian Wright, ‘Competing Payment Schemes’, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2007, 55, 1, 37–67.
32. Sujit Chakravorti and Roberto Roson, ‘Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets: The Case of Payment Networks’, Review of Network Economics, 2006, 5, 1, 118–42.
33. Aleksander Berentsen, ‘Monetary Policy Implications of Digital Money’, Kyklos, 1998, 51, 1, 89–118.
Volume III: Auctions, Intellectual Property, and Trade
Online Auctions
34. Patrick Bajari and Ali Hortaçsu, ‘Economic Insights from Internet Auctions’, Journal of Economic Literature, 2004, 42, 457–86.
35. Ravi Bapna, Paolos Toes, and Alok Gupta, ‘Analysis and Design of Business-to-Consumer Online Auctions’, Management Science, 2003, 49, 1, 85–101.
36. David Lucking-Reiley, Doug Bryan, Naghi Prasad, and Daniel Reeves, ‘Pennies from eBay: The Determinants of Price in Online Auctions’, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2007, 55, 2, 223–33.
Copyrights, User-Generated Content, and Patents
37. Oz Shy, ‘The Economics of Copy Protection in Software and Other Media’, in Brian Kahin and Hal R. Varian (eds.), Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2000), pp. 96–113.
38. Sang Hoo Bae and Jay Pil Choi, ‘A Model of Piracy’, Information Economics and Policy, 2006, 18, 3, 303–20.
39. Martin Peitz and Patrick Waelbroeck, ‘Why the Music Industry May Gain from Free Downloading—The Role of Sampling’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2006, 24, 907–13.
40. Stan Liebowitz, ‘Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?’, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49, 1, 1–28.
41. Maria Alessandra Rossi, ‘Decoding the Free/Open Source Software Puzzle: A Survey of Theoretical and Empirical Contributions’, in Jürgen Bitzer and Philipp Schröder (eds.), The Economics of Open Source Software Development (Elsevier, 2006), pp. 15–55.
42. Bronwyn Hall, ‘Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56, 4, 443–73.
E-Commerce and Global Trade
43. Caroline Freund and Diana Weinhold, ‘The Effect of the Internet on International Trade’, Journal of International Economics, 2004, 62, 1, 171–89.
44. Bernardo Blum and Avi Goldfarb, ‘Does the Internet Defy the Law of Gravity?’, Journal of International Economics, 2006, 70, 2, 384–405.
45. Ali Hortaçsu, F. Asís Martínez-Jerez, and Jason Douglas, ‘The Geography of Trade in Online Transactions: Evidence from eBay and MercadoLibre’, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2009, 1, 1, 53–74.
Volume IV: Regulatory and Policy Issues
Privacy
46. Hal Varian, ‘Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy’, in William H. Lehr and Lorenzo Maria Pupillo (eds.), Internet Policy and Economics: Challenges and Perspectives, 2nd edn (Springer, 2002), pp. 101–9.
47. Allesandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags, ‘Privacy and Rationality in Individual Decision Making’, Security and Privacy, 2005, 3, 1, 26–33.
48. Janice Tsai, Serge Egelman, Lorrie Cranor, and Alessandro Acquisti, ‘The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study’, Information Systems Research, 2011, 22, 2, 254–68.
Security
49. Ross Anderson and Tyler Moore, ‘The Economics of Information Security’, Science, 2006, 314, 5799, 610–13.
50. Tyler Moore, Richard Clayton, and Ross Anderson, ‘The Economics of Online Crime’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009, 23, 3, 3–20.
Taxation
51. Austan Goolsbee, ‘In a World without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, 2, 561–76.
52. Austan Goolsbee and Jonathan Zittrain, ‘Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce’, National Tax Journal, 1999, 52, 3, 413–28.
53. Charles Ballard and Jaimin Lee, ‘Internet Purchases, Cross-Border Shopping, and Sales Taxes’, National Tax Journal, 2007, 60, 4, 711–25.
54. Shamim Ahmed and Tony Wirjanto, ‘The Impact of Sales Taxation on Internet Commerce—An Empirical Analysis’, Economics Letters, 2008, 99, 3, 557–60.
55. Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison, ‘Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preferences in Internet Purchasing’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1, 2, 53–71.
Antitrust
56. David Evans, ‘Antitrust Issues Raised by the Emerging Global Internet Economy’, Northwestern University Law Review, 2008, 102, 4, 1987–2007.
57. Darren Tucker and Alexander Okuliar, ‘Internet Ready: Agency Enforcement of Online Mergers’, Antitrust, 2011, 26, 1, 80–7.
58. Bruce Owen, ‘Antitrust and Vertical Integration in "New Economy" Industries with Application to Broadband Access’, Review of Industrial Organization, 2011, 38, 4, 363–86.
Network Neutrality
59. Tim Wu, ‘Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination’, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 2003, 2, 141–72.
60. Barbara Van Schewick, ‘Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality Regulation’, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 2006–7, 329.
61. Christopher Yoo, ‘Network Neutrality and the Economics of Congestion’, Georgetown Law Journal, 2005–6, 94, 1847–908.
62. Adam Thierer, ‘Are "Dumb Pipe" Mandates Smart Public Policy? Vertical Integration, Net Neutrality, and the Network Layers Model’, in Thomas M. Lenard and Randolph J. May (eds.), Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated (Springer, 2006), pp. 73–108.
63. Bruce Owen and Gregory Rosston, ‘Local Broadband Access: Primum Non Nocere or Primom Processi? A Property Rights Approach’, in Thomas M. Lenard and Randolph J. May (eds.), Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated (Springer, 2006), pp. 163–94.
64. Robert Litan and Hal Singer, ‘Unintended Consequences of Net Neutrality Regulation’, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 2007.
