Opinion spammers exploit consumer trust by posting false or deceptive reviews that may have a negative impact on both consumers and businesses. These dishonest posts are difficult to detect because of complex interactions between several user characteristics such as review velocity, volume, and...

We study the impact of government-supported e-commerce infrastructure on entrepreneurship using an exogenous policy shock in China. Using a staggered difference-in-differences method and a novel administrative dataset during a period from 2011 to 2017, we find that treated counties saw a rise of...

The development of Internet brought in revolutions in pricing models in the digital music industry. Currently, there are three common schemes to sell digital music: ownership, subscription and mixed pricing models. Our paper aims to explore and compare the three pricing models. Through a...