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Price Impacts of Deals and Predictability of the Exchange Rate Movements

Ito, Takatoshi - 2010

significantly different from zero in both 5-min and 1-min forecast horizons, but the significance disappears in the 30-minute …

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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda

Agrawal, Ajay - 2014

of inquiry in this market setting that are central to the broader digitization research agenda: 1) How will the … digitization of this market influence the distribution of economic activity (geographic distribution of work, income distribution … acquisition, machine-aided recommendations)?; 3) How will the digitization of this market affect social welfare (increased …

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In a World Without Borders : the Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan - 2000

The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers usually pay no sales tax. This paper uses new data on the purchase decisions of approximately 25,000 online users to examine the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet...

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John J. - 2017

Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...

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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018

We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...

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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

features prices across retail locations around the world, suggesting that variable mark-ups play a key role in accounting for …

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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy : Evidence from Windows

Athey, Susan - 2014

This paper evaluates the nature, relative incidence and drivers of software piracy. In contrast to prior studies, we analyze data that allows us to measure piracy for a specific product - Windows 7 - which was associated with a significant level of private sector investment. Using anonymized...

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E-Commerce During COVID : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies

Alcedo, Joel; Cavallo, Alberto; Dwyer, Bricklin; … - 2022

We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...

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Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms : Evidence from Aliexpress

Bai, Jie; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Liu, Jin; Xu, Daniel Yi - 2022

We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress establish the existence of search and information frictions. A randomized experiment that offers new exporters exogenous demand and...

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No News is News : Do Markets Underreact to Nothing?

Giglio, Stefano - 2013

after merger announcement, the passage of time is informative about the probability that the merger will ultimately complete …

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