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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is surpassing human performance in a growing number of domains. However, there is limited evidence of its economic effects. Using data from a digital platform, we study a key application of AI: machine translation. We find that the introduction of a machine...
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How to Talk When a Machine is Listening : Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
Cao, Sean - 2020
This paper analyzes how corporate disclosure has been reshaped by machine processors, employed by algorithmic traders, robot investment advisors, and quantitative analysts. Our findings indicate that increasing machine and AI readership, proxied by machine downloads, motivates firms to prepare...
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Building and Delivering the Virtual World : Commercializing Services for Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane - 2000
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …
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The Online Laboratory : Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
Horton, John J. - 2010
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials. We argue that online experiments can be just as valid - both internally and...
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Online Auctions
Ockenfels, Axel - 2006
The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
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Universal Service in the Digital Age : The Commercialization and Geography of U.S. Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane - 1998
Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other … combinations of communication and computing. This concern motivates a study of the geographic spread of the commercial Internet … Service Provider (ISP) market suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper argues that two business models …
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The Impact of Aggregators on Internet News Consumption
Athey, Susan; Mobius, Markus; Pal, Jeno - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A policy debate centers around the question how news aggregators such as Google News affect traffic to online news sites. Many publishers view aggregators as substitutes for traditional news consumption while aggregators view themselves as complements because they make news discovery easier. We...
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GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps
Janßen, Rebecca; Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half. We estimate a structural model of demand and entry in the app...
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Is Attention Produced Rationally?
Bronchetti, Erin T. - 2020
A large and growing literature shows that attention-increasing interventions, such as reminders and planning prompts, can promote important behaviors. This paper develops a method to investigate whether people value attention-increasing tools rationally. We characterize how the demand for...
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Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War : 56K Modems
Augereau, Angelique - 2004
Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. We show that ISPs were less likely to adopt the technology that more …
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