Auctions versus Posted Prices in Online Markets
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This online appendix contains four sections. Appendix A provides a more general version of the model from Section 2. Appendix B includes additional charts and tables that are referenced in the main paper. Appendix C reports alternative specifications for our main results, using different matching criteria, as discussed in Section 3. Appendix D provides cross-country evidence on the decline on eBay auctions. A separate document, Appendix E, contains the survey we sent to eBay sellers, and complete responses.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016