Recommender systems assign products to slots in ways that improve consumers' experience when choosing what to buy. They usually lead to more sales, which increases both consumer surplus and profit. However, firms may also choose which recommender system to use to maximize profit. Furthermore,...

Physical retailers are increasingly trying to understand in-store shopping behavior in order to increase sales. However, measuring and analyzing shopper behavior at the point of purchase in physical retailing remains challenging. In this paper, we implement an in-vivo randomized field experiment...

Using a household level dataset, we measure the impact of a website blocking agreement based on DNS filtering on digital piracy and the consumption of pay-TV, Video on Demand, and paid entertainment channels. Our results show that blocking access to copyright infringing websites reduces Internet...