E-commerce is a hot topic; however, little is known about the actual size and impact of ecommerce in the United States. In part this is because e-commerce is a recent and rapidly evolving phenomenon, but it is also because the measurement of e-commerce presents a number of challenges. Some of these challenges are essentially unique. Others are similar to, or extensions of, old economy measurement challenges.
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Barbara M. Fraumeni (2001) studied this question.
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