Some Market Effects of E-Commerce

Abstract

. - I -An important characteristic of E-commerce is that it is a form of technological I change. The effects of E-commerce induced reductions in business production costs and on seller to buyer transaction costs are assessed. Comparative static models for different market structures are used to assess the effects of E-commerce on prices, quantities, aggregate efficiency gains, and the distribution of benefits a n d costs.Ultimately consumers are the principle beneficiaries via lower prices. Competitive forces and profit incentives induce firms to adopt cost reducing E-commerce technology.

The value chain of mobile e-payment

“…mobile terminal, and the mobile e-payment based on wallet server, in terms of value chain, have short-term growth potential, however, the mobile e-payment based on POS, etc. mobile payment terminals 1 indicates that mobile e-payment enters into the ripe stage. At present, the last two kinds of mobile e-payment are mostly used in the information content payment, of which the value is lower and the trading is frequent, and the value develops gradually with high value.…”

“…It is obvious that the three of mobile e-payment have greater development potentiality. 1 Liu Siqing, The Analysis of the Business Mode of E-Payment Based on Internet 2004. 3 analyzes the three modes of mobile e-payment in detail: the mobile e-payment based on cell-phone, etc.…”

E-commerce, productivity, and fluctuation

“…This paper follows this research line to investigate the productivity implication of e-commerce. While Li (2003) takes the bundling sale of products as a prominent feature of e-commerce, this paper will emphasize the common observations in Shapiro and Varian (1999), Lucking-Reiley and Spulber (2001), and Freebairn (2002. It considers the productivity impact generated by e-commerce through reduction in unit transaction cost and the presence of a fixed cost in a general equilibrium setting.…”

“…Shi and Mathysen (2003) provide a good summary about sources of transaction efficiency improvement with e-commerce.10 SeeShapiro and Varian (1999) andFreebairn (2002), for example.11 Adoption of e-commerce may trigger economic structural change immediately. As the necessary and sufficient conditions for structural change will be discussed in detail in the next section and the qualitative features of the conditions for adoption of e-commerce is similar with or without structural change as shown in the appendix, the former case is taken to show how adoption of e-commerce can save costs and increase productivity.…”

Explaining a dynamic CGE simulation with a trade-focused back-of-the-envelope analysis: the effects of eCommerce on Australia

“…The shocks were suggested in discussions with groups of people knowledgeable in the operation of eCommerce and drawn from sectors of the economy most likely to be directly affected by eCommerce. The group discussions produced quantifications of many of the effects identified qualitatively in recent papers by Freebain (2001), Dunt and Harper (2002) and Madden and Coble-Neal (2002).…”