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Is Amazon the next Google?
Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015
Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492143
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The internet economy : regulatory challenges and practices
Koske, Isabell; Bitetti, Rosamaria; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2014
The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464865
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The effect of big data on recommendation quality : the example of internet search
Schäfer, Maximilian; Sapi, Geza; Lorincz, Szabolcs - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815115
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E-commerce : determining factors and the importance of the e-trust
Fernández-Bonilla, Fernando - 2020
This paper studies how to calculate the propensity of individuals to participate in e-commerce, studying the variables that affect costumers at the time of the online transactions and how to modify their inclination to it, being the most relevant variables socioeconomic and those which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483397
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B2C eCommerce strategy and market structure : the survey based approach
Schmitz, Stefan W.; Sint, Peter Paul - 2003
This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437347
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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419306
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Regulating big tech: from competition policy to sector regulation?
Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2021
The European Commission has proposed a new regulatory tool for the governance of digital markets. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) intents to limit the market behavior of so-called gatekeeper companies to ensure contestable and fair digital markets. We review the provisions of the DMA both from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652861
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Demographic dividend, digital innovation, and economic growth : Bangladesh experience
Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz; Sarker, Tapan - 2021
percentage point in the number of internet users, the GDP would increase by 0.11%, ceteris paribus, while a 10-basis point … the rise in internet users. Estimations imply that the Human Development Index (HDI) score and urbanization rate have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500436
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Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search : A Field Experiment
Fang, Lu; Chen, Yanyou; Farronato, Chiara; Yuan, Zhe; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing behavior. We collaborate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486191
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Regulating big tech: from competition policy to sector regulation?
Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2022 - Updated October 2022 with the final DMA
The European Commission has proposed a new regulatory tool for the governance of digital markets. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) intents to limit the market behavior of socalled gatekeeper companies to ensure contestable and fair digital markets. We review the provisions of the DMA both from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013407158