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Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2)...
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We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that … emergence of new political entrepreneurs who used the Internet to convert the initial "exit" back into "voice". Overall, these … nuanced effects underscore the general equilibrium dynamic induced by the Internet …
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The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …
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The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …
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The innovations that became the foundation for the Internet originate from two eras that illustrate two distinct models …
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paper unpacks the idea selection process using a unique dataset from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a voluntary … organization that develops protocols for managing Internet infrastructure. For a large sample of IETF proposals, we observe a …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …
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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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We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American … evidence that the Internet is becoming more segregated over time …
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