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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …

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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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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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Learning from online ratings

Hui, Xiang; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2024

Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller’s type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns...

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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers

Dahlstrand-Rudin, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024

Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...

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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...

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An empirical study of pricing strategies in an online market with high-frequency price information

Ellison, Sara; Snyder, Christopher M. - 2014

We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....

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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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Two-sided markets and electronic intermediaries

Jullien, Bruno (contributor) - 2004

The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the...

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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