Digital platforms facilitate the flow of information and the execution of transactions. This study investigates the impact of signals from platform-provided online information regarding search and experience attributes of products on the prices of their offline transactions. We situate our...

Drawing from dynamic capability theory, we explore conditions and mechanisms by which new government–business relations influence the development of urban digital economy, using panel data of 242 prefecture-level Chinese cities over 2017–2019. The results indicate that building new...

The newly enacted Digital Markets Act (DMA) finds itself at a crossroads. The DMA can develop into a specialist field of competition law for digital platforms or it can evolve into a new field of EU law, detached from competition law. The DMA’s ultimate trajectory will depend on the legal...

The newly enacted Digital Markets Act (DMA) finds itself at a crossroads. The DMA can develop into a specialist field of competition law for digital platforms or it can evolve into a new field of EU law, detached from competition law. The DMA’s ultimate trajectory will depend on the legal...

What is the effect of e-commerce on the geographic distribution of local sales tax revenues? Using COVID-19 as a shock to online shopping and hand-collected high-frequency data on local sales tax revenue, we document an important shift in the state and local public finance landscape. As...

Accelerating the development of the digital economy and building digital industrial clusters with international competitiveness has become an important connotation of China's high-quality economic development. From the perspective of the digital economy, this paper makes an in-depth study of the...

There are many differences between cross-border e-commerce and offline stores, and situational factors have a great impact on consumer behavior. We construct the influencing factor model of competitive brand spillover effect by using 337 questionnaire data to explore whether there are...

This paper explores the impact of digital economy development on the wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers based on the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database in 2010-2020. The research results suggest that the higher the level of digital economy development, the larger the wage gap...

Combined with data from the Broadband China pilots, panel data on financial fraud in prefecture-level cities from China Judgments Online are used to examine the impact of internet technology on financial fraud. We find that internet technology has significantly increased city financial fraud....