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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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Macro-Economic Management in an Electronic Credit/Financial System

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2017

Modern technology provides the basis of an efficient low-cost electronic payments as an alternative to the current system where fiat money is the medium of exchange. This paper explores possible macro-economic implication, showing how such a financial system might enhance government's ability to...

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Digital Economics

Goldfarb, Avi - 2017

Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics examines whether and how digital technology changes economic activity. In this review, we emphasize the reduction...

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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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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

Athey, Susan - 2018

As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies – tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists...

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Gdp-B : Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2019

The welfare contributions of the digital economy, characterized by the proliferation of new and free goods, are not well-measured in our current national accounts. We derive explicit terms for the welfare contributions of these goods and introduce a new metric, GDP-B which quantifies their...

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How the Internet Lowers Prices : Evidence from Matched Survey and Auto Transaction Data

Zettelmeyer, Florian; Scott Morton, Fiona; Silva-Risso, … - 2021

There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers inestablished industries, for example, term life insurance and car retailing. However, current researchdoes not reveal much about how using the Internet lowers prices. This paper answers this questionfor...

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Online Auctions

Ockenfels, Axel; Reiley, David H.; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - 2021

The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...

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