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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 Internet Economy - Regulatory Challenges and Practices
Koske, Isabell; Bitetti, Rosamaria; Wanner, Isabelle; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 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/10011276839
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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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The rise of exporting by U.S. firms
Lincoln, William F.; McCallum, Andrew H. - 2016
due to significant declines in entry costs. We instead find evidence of large roles for the development of the internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459472
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Digital trade : developing a framework for analysis
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes - 2017
This paper explores the definition, measurement, and policy implications of digital trade, proposing a tentative typology of digital trade that can be used to unpack transactions and analyse the issues. Digitalisation is changing what and how we trade: from digital delivery to greater physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695418
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RFID technology in the trade business: opportunities and challenges
Danchev, Dancho - In: Economic Studies journal (2012) 1, pp. 80-107
The paper discusses the opportunities, advantages, problems and challenges to the application of RFID technology in the trade business. It determines the morphology of the radio frequency identification as a contemporary information technology. It evaluates the opportunities and advantages of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550581
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A study of price evolution in online toy market
Yang, Zhenlin; Gan, Lydia; Tang, Fang-Fang - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010), pp. 1-29
We study and contrast pricing and price evolution of online only (Dotcom) and online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRs) based on two panel data sets collected from online toy markets. Panel data regression analyses reveal several interesting empirical results: over time, OBMCRs and...
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The Economics of Spam
Rao, Justin M.; Reiley, David H. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 3, pp. 87-110
We estimate that American firms and consumers experience costs of almost $20 billion annually due to spam. Our figure is more conservative than the $50 billion figure often cited by other authors, and we also note that the figure would be much higher if it were not for private investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611161
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Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce
Einav, Liran; Knoepfle, Dan; Levin, Jonathan; … - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 1, pp. 1-26
We estimate the sensitivity of Internet retail purchasing to sales taxes using eBay data. Our first approach exploits …
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The Emerging Landscape for Retail E-Commerce
Bakos, Yannis - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 15 (2001) 1, pp. 69-80
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