00000nam 2200000zi 4500 9.880160 CaOODSP 20250501123156 m o d f cr cn||||||||| 191003t20192019onca ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng rda CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- x9y1 FB3-5/2019-42E-PDF Chernoff, Alexander W., author. Amazon effects in Canadian online retail firm-product-level data / by Alex W. Chernoff. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (ii, 21 pages) : illustrations (some colour). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-42 "October 2019." Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-17). "I use firm-product-level data for Canadian online retailers to study how product scope (the average number of product categories per firm) evolved from 1999 to 2012. During this period, product scope dropped monotonically from 59 to 5 product categories. Using a theoretical model of multi-product firms, I show that this reduction can be rationalized by increased online competition. Consistent with the model, I find that the percentage of Canadian online retailers with revenues in a product category falls when Amazon.com expands its varieties in the category. Overall, Amazon.com's expansion accounts for 37 percent of the observed reduction in product scope"--Abstract, page ii. Includes abstracts in English and French. gccst Retail trade gccst Electronic commerce gccst Models Bank of Canada. Staff working paper (Bank of Canada) 2019-42. (CaOODSP)9.806221 PDF 1.24 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2019-42-eng.pdf