Are there economies of scale to data in internet search? This paper is first to use real search engine query logs to … empirically investigate how data drives the quality of internet search results. We find evidence that the quality of search …

The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also … their products and deliver them over long distances. This paper considers how the Internet can increase exports by reducing … Internet is making firms more mobile. Despite the enormous potential benefits, the use of the Internet to conduct digital trade …

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 …