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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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Success of firm strategies in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018

The choice of an appropriate e-commerce strategy is crucial for the survival of online stores in B2C e-commerce business. We use a comprehensive data set from the Austrian price search engine geizhals.at to identify successful e-commerce strategies. An e-commerce strategy is a set of choices...

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Tuning an online shop : consumer reactions to e-tailers' service quality

Hackl, Franz; Weiss, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009 - This Version June 2009

This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-click- through concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which covers most of the national (Austrian) market on e-tailing....

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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 …

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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

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Buying online : sequential decision making by shopbot visitors

Dulleck, Uwe; Hackl, Franz; Weiss, Bernhard; … - 2008

In this article we propose a two stage procedure to model demand decisions by customers who are balancing several dimensions of a product. We then test our procedure by analyzing the behavior of buyers from an Austrian price comparison site. Although in such a market a consumer will typically...

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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...

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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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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....

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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 …

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