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Dog Eat Dog : Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger

Farronato, Chiara - 2020

Digital platforms are increasingly the subject of regulatory scrutiny. In comparison to multiple competitors, a single platform may increase consumer welfare if network effects are large or may decrease welfare due to higher prices or reduction in platform variety. We study the net effect of...

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Promoting Platform Takeoff and Self-Fulfilling Expectations : Field Experimental Evidence

Boudreau, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The theoretical literature on platforms and network effects predicts that the initial growth and takeoff of a platform crucially depends on the market's expectations of the future installed base. This paper tests this claim, reporting on a field experiment in which invitations to join a newly...

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Platform as a Rule Maker : Evidence from Airbnb's Cancellation Policies

Jia, Jian; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-guest rules can drive demand and supply to and from the platform, as a function of the local platform competition between Airbnb … and VRBO. Our results suggest that platform competition sometimes dampens a platform wide pro-guest rule and sometimes … reinforces it, often with heterogeneous effects on different hosts. This implies that platform competition does not necessarily …

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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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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay

Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Quality certification is a common tool to reduce asymmetric information and enhance trust in marketplaces. Should the certificate focus on seller inputs such as fast shipping, or include output measures such as consumer ratings? In theory, incorporating output measures makes the certificate more...

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Steering in Online Markets : The Role of Platform Incentives and Credibility

Barach, Moshe A. - 2019

Platform marketplaces can potentially steer buyers to certain sellers by recommending or guaranteeing those sellers. Money-back guarantees--which create a direct financial stake for the platform in seller performance--might be particularly effective at steering, as they align buyer and platform...

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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

Athey, Susan - 2018

As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies - tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists...

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Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms : Evidence from AliExpress

Bai, Jie - 2020

Global e-commerce platforms present new export opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries by significantly lowering the entry barriers of exporting. However, the lack of market selection can lead to a large number of online firms competing for consumers'...

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John - 2017

Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...

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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

Dinerstein, Michael - 2014

data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer search and price competition when retailers offer homogeneous goods. We find …

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