Amazon, and other internet sales platforms, have revolutionized the manner in which goods are purchased and sold. The obligations undertaken by Amazon in those sales are unclear, both as a matter of transparency, and as a matter of legal doctrine. Is Amazon a store? Is it a shipper? Is it a...

This article aims to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and Amazon company, one of the most preferred online shopping companies. In doing this, we analyze the relationship between stock prices and sales. Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak on December 1, 2019, online shopping...

On November 4, 2019, the United States confirmed its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The Agreement, which is often cited as the only effective institutional solution to climate change, has been judged an overall success. As such, the United States’ withdrawal was a...

Loreto is a place of contrasts. Located on the western flank of the Amazon jungle, it is by far Peru’s largest state in terms of size, but also among those with the lowest population density. Its capital, the city of Iquitos, sits on the western bank of the Amazon River, surrounded by...

The following article will cover the phenomenon of Amazon and one of the keys to its success: the simplicity with which users can access to what they are interested in. The paper discusses the function of the algorithm now used by Amazon (A9). On the basis of the operation of the Amazon...

Intellectual Property (IP) migration represents a significant challenge to tax administrations, often involving significant tax revenue. In the Amazon case regarding the transfer of its IP from the US to Luxembourg, the Court rejected the valuations of both parties (US $255 million versus US...

Global warming and climate impact on agricultural output, land use and food production. This paper seeks to verify the economic impacts of climate change in the Legal Amazon region, especially on agricultural production, land use, GDP and job creation. We employ the Computable General...

This paper looks at Amazon as a global corporation and elaborates on how the company manages executive pay, immigration issues and controls sustainable supply chains. When Amazon started as a book store under the leadership of Jeff Bezos, it was unknown that the company would soon expand to such...

This paper sets out an empirically-driven approach for targeting environmental policies optimally in order to combat deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a 'Priority List' of municipalities in 2008, to be targeted...

In September 2018, the European Commission sent out formal requests for information to investigate allegations of an anticompetitive conduct by Amazon. The investigation relates to the interdependencies between Amazon's third-party sales platform for retailers (“Amazon Marketplace”) and...

The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on...

This paper sets out an empirically-driven approach for targeting environmental policies optimally in order to combat deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a ‘Priority List' of municipalities in 2008, to be...

I identify a specific channel (the prospect of getting funded or acquired by large firms) through which entrepreneurship is affected. By exploiting the variation across entrepreneurs' reactions to the two announcements of Amazon's new headquarters (HQ2) search, I find that after the announcement...

Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a cooperative intervention which organizes together poor fishing communities in the Amazon -- one of the poorest and most...

"This book focuses on how local, national and international civil society groups opposed the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in the Brazilian Amazon. In doing so, it explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of 'contested...

Marketing practices are changing with the changing consumer needs. With a plethora of brands in the market, retailers are required to create a difference to impart a unique and blissful experience enabling to develop a long-lasting relationship. It is imperative for the marketer to understand...

I study how online competition, with its algorithmic pricing technologies and the transparency of the Internet, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes...

I study how online competition, with its algorithmic pricing technologies and the transparency of the Internet, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes...

In this paper, we use geospatial data and difference-in-differences models to identify the deforestation effects, during 2000-2013, of the leading forest policies in the Peruvian Amazon: i) logging concessions, ii) third-party certification of concessions, and iii) Protected Areas (PAs). We find...

"The Future of Amazonia in Brazil: A Worldwide Tragedy is a study on the importance of protecting Amazonia, constructing its sustainable development and its articulations with worldwide socioeconomic processes. It analyzes the main contemporary polemics from the perspective of culture and the...

"This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways and...

Amazon's Free App of the Day program, aimed at improving app visibility using daily free promotions, is a compelling experiment in the ‘economics of free'. In this study, we investigate the longer-term consequences of free app promotions on the performance of apps on Amazon Appstore. In...

The Amazon Rainforest is a global public good. As such, and given that 15 percent of the original Amazon forest area has already been lost, households worldwide might be willing to pay to reduce or avoid additional losses. A full elicitation of global preferences for valuing preservation of the...