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Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021

This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...

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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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Taxes in an e-commerce generation

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2016

Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis. This results in different effective tax rates depending on the way in which goods and services are purchased and the characteristics of both the products and the sellers. We...

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Sales taxation, spatial agglomeration, and the Internet

Agrawal, David R.; Wildasin, David E. - 2019

Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...

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The impact of consumer protection in the digital age : evidence from the European Union

Rösner, Anja; Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data from the Special and Flash Eurobarometer for the years...

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The impact of price adjustment costs on price dispersion in e-commerce

Böheim, René; Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael - 2019

We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to instrument for potential endogeneity that might result from the selection of firms to certain product markets. We find that greater price adjustment costs result in greater price...

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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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When and why do buyers rate in online markets?

Hui, Xiang; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2022

Online ratings play an important role in many markets. We study the often disputed information content of these ratings, by proposing a reduced-form Bayesian model of the typical buyer's rating decision. Our empirical evidence based on eBay raw data is in line with even intricate predictions...

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Selling cross-border in online markets : the impact of the ban on geoblocking strategies

Bourreau, Marc; Manenti, Fabio M. - 2020

We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking...

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