The rapid evolution of the digital landscape, including the emergence of the information superhighway and the proliferation of smartphone applications, has fundamentally transformed the e-commerce landscape. Traditional business models have been rendered obsolete, and new opportunities for...

How do online platforms contribute to inclusive growth policies? In this study, we examine how the East-West Poverty Alleviation Partnership, which pairs rich cities in East China with economically disadvantaged cities in West China, affects e-commerce trade. Using proprietary trade-flow data...

A supercluster of economically useful and powerful new digital technologies (crypto, generative AI, AR/VR, IoT, et al.) have arrived all at once in the past decade. These technologies are disrupting economic organisation and institutions (e.g. money, contracting, administration, choice). The...

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in surveys conducted with online respondents who choose to participate without random selection. Using an uncompensated, opt-in panel of 11,000 Pennsylvania respondents conducted from 2020-2022, we benchmark self-reports against public records of vote...

The recent advances in information technology now allow millions of people to trade and invest in an array of financial assets with the help of online brokerage platforms. This allows retail investors to have more control over their own financial well-being, arguably a positive development....

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) wants to ensure that digital markets are – or once again become – contestable and fair. To that purpose, Articles 5, 6 and 7 DMA foresee some ground rules for those providers of core platform services that have been designated as digital gatekeepers. These are...

With the unique data on Chinese listed companies’ online sales through e-commerce platforms from 2015-2020, this paper investigates the impact of online sales on firms’ debt financing costs. The results show that online sales significantly reduce firms’ debt financing costs, and the...

The internet revolution has changed the scenario of the travel industry through the easily accessible of travel products to mass consumers through their virtual presence rather than physical. The online travel Portal (OTP) is also known as an Online Travel agent, E-travel agents and virtual...

Using data from an online-book platform, we investigate three release strategies of serialized digital content: simultaneous (releasing the entire content of a book at once), sequential (releasing the content of a book sequentially over time), and hybrid release. These release strategies impact...

The location of retail establishments in space is a critical decision for firms in the retail market. The rise of e-commerce in recent years has led to the displacement of many offline stores, but the precise mechanisms by which this affects the equilibrium number of stores are not well...