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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we...
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A Model of Behavioral Manipulation
Acemoglu, Daron; Makhdoumi, Ali; Malekian, Azarakhsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n …
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Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce
Dolfen, Paul - 2019
E-Commerce represents a rapidly growing share of consumer spending in the U.S. We use transactions-level data on credit and debit cards from Visa, Inc. between 2007 and 2017 to quantify the resulting consumer surplus. We estimate that E-Commerce spending reached 8% of consumption by 2017,...
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The Economic Impact of Distributing Financial Products on Third-Party Online Platforms
Hong, Claire Yurong - 2019
The emergence of third-party online platforms in intermediating financial products has been a new and exciting development in FinTech. In China, the platforms are allowed to distribute mutual funds since 2012, and have quickly grown into a formidable presence. Examining the economic impact of...
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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018
online, implies roughly 2 percentage points lower inflation than in a matched model/CPI-style index …
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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?
Stanton, Christopher T.; Thomas, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an online labor market. Labor demand elasticities determine workers' wages, and buyers' past market experience shapes both their job posting frequency and hiring rates. We find...
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Flagship Entry in Online Marketplaces
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Lu, Zhentong; Zhou, Xiaolu; Fang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the world of omnichannel retail, some brands open a flagship store at online marketplaces, while others avert it. Focusing on a large e-commerce platform, we empirically study how flagship entry affects consumers, the platform, and various sellers on the platform
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E-commerce During Covid : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies
Alcedo, Joel - 2022
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that … positively links prices of tradables to consumer income. Guided by the model's testable prediction, I estimate the elasticity of …
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E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries
Goldmanis, Maris - 2008
switch to purchasing products online. We specify a general industry model involving consumers with differing search costs … the model using U.S. data for three industries in which e-commerce has arguably decreased consumers' search costs … model. Interestingly, while the industries experienced similar changes, the specific mechanisms through which e …
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