Estimating the Impact of E-Commerce on Retail Exit and Entry Using Google Trends

Vitt, David Christopher

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3076142

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“…By exploiting the enactment of the Amazon Tax as a source of exogenous variation, this paper evaluates how the removal of a price advantage changes incentives for both online and o✏ine retailers which may lead to changes in the retail market structure. In that sense, this paper extends the literature evaluating e-commerce e↵ects on market structure, competition, prices, entrance and exit, and spatial distribution (Goldmanis et al, 2010;Bar-isaac et al, 2012;Cavallo, 2017;Vitt, 2020;Pozzi, 2013;Wu, 2020;Fang, 2020;Chung, 2023). As this literature is mostly descriptive and theoretical, by exploiting the Amazon Tax in our identification strategy, this paper is the first to explore e-commerce causal e↵ects on the economy.…”

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confidence: 53%