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Seller reputation and price gouging: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
Economic Inquiry ( IF 1.710 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 , DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12993
Luís Cabral 1, 2 , Lei Xu 3
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From mid-January to March 2020, 3M masks sold on Amazon by third party sellers were priced 2.4 times higher than Amazon's 2019 price. However, this price increase was not uniform across sellers. We estimate that when Amazon is stocked out (one of our measures of scarcity) new (entrant) sellers increase price by 178%, whereas the continuing sellers' increase is limited to 56.7%. This is consistent with the idea that seller reputation limits the extent of profitable price gouging. Similar results are obtained for Purell hand sanitizer and for other measures of scarcity. We also explore policy implications of our results.

中文翻译:

卖家声誉和价格欺诈:来自 COVID-19 大流行的证据

从 1 月中旬到 2020 年 3 月,第三方卖家在亚马逊上销售的 3M 口罩的价格是亚马逊 2019 年价格的 2.4 倍。然而,这种价格上涨在卖家之间并不统一。我们估计,当亚马逊缺货(我们衡量稀缺性的一种衡量标准)时,新(进入)卖家的价格会上涨 178%,而持续卖家的涨幅限制在 56.7%。这与卖方声誉限制了有利可图的价格欺诈程度的想法是一致的。Purell 洗手液和其他稀缺性措施也获得了类似的结果。我们还探讨了我们结果的政策含义。
更新日期:2021-03-07
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