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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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The internet as a tax haven?

Agrawal, David R. - 2021

avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …

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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

diagnosis more than doubles them. Internet ratings of repair shops are a good predictor of prices. However, the predictive …

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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...

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Tax avoidance through e-commerce and cross-border shopping

Harbolt, Benjamin - 2019

As e-commerce has grown over the last few decades so has states' concern for its use for sales tax avoidance. Using a panel of Washington State tax jurisdictions from 2005 through 2015, I estimate the effect of a sales tax regime change on the elasticities of taxable sales. I find the regime...

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Searching the eBay marketplace

Sailer, Katharina (contributor) - 2006

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Taxing goods and services in a digital era

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2020

Taxing consumption in the digital economy poses unique challenges for fiscal authorities. Recent institutional reforms, such as states changing remittance rules for the sales and use tax following the Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, were enacted in order to increase tax...

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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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Online shopping can redistribute local tax revenue from urban to rural America

Agrawal, David R.; Shybalkina, Iuliia - 2023

What is the effect of e-commerce on the geographic distribution of local sales tax revenues? Using COVID-19 as a shock to online shopping and hand-collected high-frequency data on local sales tax revenue, we document an important shift in the state and local public finance landscape. As...

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Quality certificates alleviate consumer aversion to sponsored search advertising

Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng - 2022

We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a...

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