With the advent of the Internet, we have seen existing markets transform and new ones emerge. In this paper, we contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon by theorizing about the role that IT plays in affecting market information, transparency and market structure. In particular, we introduce a new theoretical framework which uncovers the process and the forces that, together with IT, f...

Low search costs in Internet markets can be used by consumers to find low prices, but can also be used by retailers to monitor competitors’ prices. This price monitoring can lead to price matching, resulting in dampened price competition and higher prices in some cases. This paper analyzes price data for 316 bestselling, computer, and random book titles gathered from 32 retailers between August...

& Impacts on markets and organizations & Adoption in eMarkets and interorganizational information systems & Interorganizational coordination and integration & Vertical integration and hybrid forms & Electronic intermediaries & Disintermediation/mediation & New organizational forms & Online buyer and supplier behavior & Business models and market design & Market efficiency and price dispersion &...

Reputation mechanisms offer an efficient way of building the necessary level of trust in electronic markets. In the absence of independent verification authorities that can reveal the true outcome of a transaction, market designers have to insure that it is in the best interest of the trading agents to report the behavior in transactions truthfully. As opposed to side-payment schemes that corre...

We champion the view that a richer understanding of electronic markets is obtained when their implications for consumers are jointly studied from social, economic, and psychological perspectives. We adopt this perspective triad to build a Social– Economic–Psychological (SEP) Model of technology adoption and usage, and apply the model to understand and explain the behavior of online investors. T...

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Iranian traditional architecture is one of the world's architectures par excellence. It was one of the most important architectures in the medieval Islamic world. Iranian architecture has developed over millennia in response to its religion. Many traditional and vernacular buildings in Iran show that the architects had been so clever in harmonizing the Iranian religion and architecture in the p...

Accurate and effective electricity price forecasting is critical to market participants in order to make an appropriate risk management in competitive electricity markets. Market participants rely on price forecasts to decide on their bidding strategies, allocate assets and plan facility investments. However, due to its time variant behavior and non-linear and non-stationary nature, electricity...

the objective of this paper is econometric analysis of iranian agricultural products markets (case study ofpotatoes) by using equilibrium and disequilibrium techniques. sections i and ii proceeds by classification of disequilibrium econometric literature and supply and demand analysis for agriculural products, respectively. in the other parts ofpaper potato market lif iran was hypothesized and ...