The common understanding of the digital economy is that it is mainly driven by data, technology, the network effect – or what we call intangibles. We argue against this perception of the digital economy.Considering “intangibles”, “technology”, or even “robots” not simply as output...

The Digital Services Tax (DST) may never be enacted in Canada. At least that seems to be what most Canadian tax professionals hope for: the draft Digital Services Tax Act (DSTA), released by the federal government in December 2021, has received little meaningful commentary; likely few Canadian...

We conduct a year-long experiment among new sellers on a large e-commerce platform. The treatment group receives access to a free and customized entrepreneur training program, in which an AI algorithm assigns training materials to sellers based on their real-time operating statistics. With a 24%...

I present a novel model where Big Tech platforms create private money outside the regulated banking system. Big Tech platforms distinguish from other online markets by providing FinTech payment services, which are more cost-efficient than cash and traditional bank payments. I show that Big...

With the rise of the sharing economy, more and more retailers join the e-commerce platform to expand sales channels. As an important means to improve consumer retention rate, the membership system is widely used in major e-commerce platforms. In this paper, we develop a model to discuss the...

Remedies often get overlooked in discussions of antitrust litigation, treated almost as an afterthought. When remedies have been part of the antitrust debate the focus has often been on an after-the-fact assessment of their effectiveness, or on the general question whether there should be a...

Public sector organizations must avoid expensive, inefficient cost or schedule variances that exhaust the resources of a project, and in response many deploy digital initiatives without clear, direct evidence of a quantifiable return on investment. This investigation determined if digital...

Promoting the integration of the digital economy and the real economy has become a necessary condition for building a modern economic system. As a result, this paper chooses Shandong Province, China, as the research object, and first employs the Dagum Gini Coefficient to measure regional...

We use the Trade Agreements Provisions on Electronic Commerce and Data and their corresponding texts to undertake network and text analysis on trade agreements with digital trade chapters to identify which countries are important in the network and how similar or different their texts of digital...