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The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …
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Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing behavior. We collaborate...
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due to significant declines in entry costs. We instead find evidence of large roles for the development of the internet …
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This paper explores the definition, measurement, and policy implications of digital trade, proposing a tentative typology of digital trade that can be used to unpack transactions and analyse the issues. Digitalisation is changing what and how we trade: from digital delivery to greater physical...
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For some kinds of goods, rarity itself is valued. "Fashionable'" goods are demanded in part because they are unique. In this paper, we explore the economics of rare goods using auctions of limited-edition shoes held by an e-commerce platform. We model endogenous entry and bidding in multi-unit...
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Regulators around the world are discussing, or taking action to limit, self-preferencing by large platforms. This paper explores Amazon's search rankings of its own products as the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was coming into effect. Using data on over 8 million Amazon search...
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We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness,' which captures attributes that make products appear more attractive than they...
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I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying to leverage its dominance into new sectors. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the technical and commercial...
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High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …
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inputs, and product characteristics with plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet …, this paper provides causal evidence on how the internet affected the traditional print media market. Household adoption of … broadband internet triggered large reductions in print readership and circulation and equally large increases in online news …
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