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Gautier, Axel - 2020

Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...

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Merger Policy in Digital Markets : An Ex-Post Assessment

Argentesi, Elena - 2020

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … theories of harm in major merger cases in the past few years. We then analyse the characteristics of almost 300 acquisitions … important merger cases, Facebook/Instagram and Google/Waze, providing a systematic assessment of the theories of harm considered …

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Humanistic Digital Governance

Snower, Dennis J.; Twomey, Paul - 2021

We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: “third-party funded digital barter”: consumers of digital services get many digital services for free (or underpriced) and in return have personal information about themselves collected for free. In addition, the digital...

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Digitalization and Cross-Border Tax Fraud : Evidence from E-Invoicing in Italy

Heinemann, Marwin; Stiller, Wojciech - 2023

The digitalization of transaction processes through tools such as electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) aims to improve tax compliance and reduce administrative costs. Another important aspect of digitalization is its potential to reduce tax evasion. We analyze the impact of the widely introduced...

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Energy Markets and Global Economic Conditions

Baumeister, Christiane - 2020

usefulness for forecasting real oil prices and global petroleum consumption. We find that world industrial production is one of …

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Targeted Incentives, Broad Impacts : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform

Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat - 2022

Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior of all sellers in the equilibrium. In this paper, we study a policy change on a large e-commerce platform that offers financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers...

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Data Brokers Co-Opetition

Gu, Yiquan - 2019

Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...

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The Impact of Price Adjustment Costs on Price Dispersion in E-Commerce

Böheim, René - 2019

We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to instrument for potential endogeneity that might result from the selection of firms to certain product markets. We find that greater price adjustment costs result in greater price...

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The Gilets Jaunes : Offline and Online

Boyer, Pierre C. - 2020

We study the Gilets jaunes movement, which blocked most of France off in November 2018. We first analyze the complementarity/substitutability between the different forms of mobilization and find that blockades were planned online and later reinforced online activism. Second, we do textual...

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Tax Avoidance Through E-Commerce and Cross-Border Shopping

Harbolt, Benjamin - 2019

As e-commerce has grown over the last few decades so has states' concern for its use for sales tax avoidance. Using a panel of Washington State tax jurisdictions from 2005 through 2015, I estimate the effect of a sales tax regime change on the elasticities of taxable sales. I find the regime...

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