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Castronova, Edward - 2002

Several million people currently have accounts in massively multi-player online games, places in cyberspace that are effectively large-scale shared virtual reality environments. The population of these virtual worlds has grown rapidly since their inception in 1996; significantly, each world also...

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Late and multiple bidding in second price Internet auctions : theory and evidence concerning different rules for ending an auction

Ockenfels, Axel; Roth, Alvin E. - 2003

In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit … second price internet auctions, in which very late bids have a positive probability of not being successfully submitted, and …

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Enabling the Internet of Value : How Blockchain Connects Global Businesses

Vadgama, Nikhil (ed.); Xu, Jiahua (ed.); Tasca, Paolo (ed.) - 2022

Part I: Deﬁning the Internet of Value 1 -- Chapter 1. Deﬁning the Internet of Value -- Part II: How DLT will evolve in … of Stake and Structural Alternatives. Part III: The Internet of Value and Financial Services 31 -- Chapter 4. The New … Internet of Value Financial Ecosystem 33 -- Chapter 5. From banks to DeFi: the evolution of the lending market 48 -- Chapter 6 …

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Achieving Business Competitiveness in a Digital Environment : Opportunities in E-commerce and Online Marketing

Semerádová, Tereza (ed.); Weinlich, Petr (ed.) - 2022

1. The Broad and Narrow Definition of E-Commerce -- 2. Evaluative Framework for Digital Competitiveness -- 3. Website-Centric Shoping Experience -- 4. Socially Responsible Online Marketing- 5. Algorithms – the New Leaders of the Advertising Market -- 6. The Credibility of Online...

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Lock-in effects in online labor markets

Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021

This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...

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Virtual worlds : a first-hand account of market and society on the cyberian frontier

Castronova, Edward - 2001

exists entirely on 40 computers in San Diego. Unlike many internet ventures, virtual worlds are making money - with annual … internet innovations, virtual worlds may soon become the primary venue for all online activity. …

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The internet as a tax haven?

Agrawal, David R. - 2021

avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …

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Taxes in an e-commerce generation

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2016

Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis. This results in different effective tax rates depending on the way in which goods and services are purchased and the characteristics of both the products and the sellers. We...

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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...

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Sales taxation, spatial agglomeration, and the Internet

Agrawal, David R.; Wildasin, David E. - 2019

Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...

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