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Mums go online : is the internet changing the demand for healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020
We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528339
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Digital piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274976
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Information and vaccine hesitancy : the role of broadband internet
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2024
We examine the effect of internet diffusion on the uptake of an important public health intervention: the measles …, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. We study England between 2000 and 2011 when internet diffusion spread rapidly and there was … a high profile medical article (falsely) linking the MMR vaccine to autism. OLS estimates suggest internet diffusion led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517927
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Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms : Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations
Belleflamme, Paul - 2018
The rise and success of digital platforms (such as Airbnb, Amazon, Booking, Expedia, Ebay, and Uber) rely, to a large extent, on their ability to address two major issues. First, to effectively facilitate transactions, platforms need to resolve the problem of trust in the implicit or explicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926839
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Reassessing Competition Concerns in Electronic Communications Markets
Peitz, Martin - 2014
Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040200
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The EU Digital Markets Act : A Report from a Panel of Economic Experts
Cabral, Luis M. B.; Haucap, Justus; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2021
Over the last years, several reports highlighted the market power of very large online platforms that are gatekeeping intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with anti-competitive practices in these platforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245166
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Attention, recall and purchase : experimental evidence on online news and advertising
Valletti, Tommaso M.; Veiga, André - 2021
We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...
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Internet and politics: Evidence from U.K. local elections and local government policies
Gavazza, Alessandro; Nardotto, Mattia; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2017
We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011749969
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Digital piracy : theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
; IP protection ; internet ; peer-to-peer ; software ; music …
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