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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet

Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory ….s investment incentive and social welfare. Furthermore, the investment level is higher if the regulated ISP is allowed to charge … the CPs. Finally, a socially optimal investment can be opposite to the ISP's choice when the contents are enough …

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Dynamic competition with network externalities : why history matters

Hałaburda, Hanna; Jullien, Bruno; Yehezkel, Yaron - 2016 - September 2013, revised March 2016

We consider dynamic competition among platforms in a market with network externalities. A platform that dominated the market in the previous period becomes "focal" in the current period, in that agents play the equilibrium in which they adopt the focal platform whenever such equilibrium exists....

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The effect of online search on international trade

Ma, Shuzhong; Fang, Chao - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 46, pp. 5369-5384

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An experimental analysis of ending rules in Internet auctions

Ariely, Dan; Ockenfels, Axel; Roth, Alvin E. - 2003

A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as eBay, which employ a second price auction with a fixed deadline. Much less late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as those run by Amazon, which employ similar auction rules, but use an ending rule that...

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Taxing goods and services in a digital era

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2020

of enforcing taxes in a digital world, determining filing thresholds, dealing with online marketplaces and facilitators …

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Selectivity, Market Timing and the Morningstar Star-Rating System

Antypas, Antonios; aporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2009

This paper evaluates the Morningstar mutual fund ranking system. We find that indeed higher Morningstar ratings are associated with higher returns on the portfolios including respectively five-, four-, three-, two- and one-star funds only (STAR5 to STAR1). We then perform an unconditional and...

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Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2018

Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers' level of self-confidence...

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Does the nominal exchange rate regime matter for investment?

Böhm, Hjalmar; Funke, Michael - 2001

This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …

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A note on cross-country growth regressions

Miller, Stephen M. - In: Applied economics 28 (1996) 8, pp. 1019-1026

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