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Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search : A Field Experiment

Fang, Lu; Chen, Yanyou; Farronato, Chiara; Yuan, Zhe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector

Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...

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Consumer Demand with Social Influences : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform

Caoui, El Hadi; Farronato, Chiara; Horton, John J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Amazon Self-preferencing in the Shadow of the Digital Markets Act

Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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A Model of Behavioral Manipulation

Acemoglu, Daron; Makhdoumi, Ali; Malekian, Azarakhsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Broadband Internet Access and Health Outcomes : Patient and Provider Responses in Medicare

Van Parys, Jessica; Brown, Zach Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; McCauley, Jeremy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Late and multiple bidding in competing second price internet auctions

Stryszowska, M. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI

Beraja, Martin; Kao, Andrew; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document three facts about the global diffusion of surveillance AI technology, and in particular, the role played by China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance AI than other countries, and particularly so as...

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A Framework for Detection, Measurement, and Welfare Analysis of Platform Bias

Reimers, Imke; Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Regulators are responding to growing platform power with curbs on platforms' potentially biased exercise of power, creating urgent needs for both a workable definition of platform bias and ways to detect and measure it. We develop a simple equilibrium framework in which consumers choose among...

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