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The Impact of Price Adjustment Costs on Price Dispersion in E-Commerce
Böheim, René - 2019
We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to instrument for potential endogeneity that might result from the selection of firms to certain product markets. We find that greater price adjustment costs result in greater price...
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On the Evolution of Market Institutions : The Platform Design Paradox
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Walzl, Markus - 2021
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether efficient platforms, leading to market - clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers are...
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Investment in Quality Upgrade and Regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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The Gilets Jaunes : Offline and Online
Boyer, Pierre - 2020
We study the Gilets jaunes movement, which blocked most of France off in November 2018. We first analyze the complementarity/substitutability between the different forms of mobilization and find that blockades were planned online and later reinforced online activism. Second, we do textual...
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Mums Go Online : Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2021
We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
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British Stock Market, Brexit and Media Sentiments - A Big Data Analysis
Basak, Gopal K. - 2019
In this paper we show, using a Machine Learning Framework and utilising a substantial corpus of media articles on Brexit, confirmed evidence of co-integration and causality between the ensuing media sentiments and British currency. The novel contribution of this paper is that along with...
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Using Predictive Analytics to Track Students : Evidence from a Seven-College Experiment
Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodriguez, Julio - 2021
Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and reliability, and unnecessarily place students from...
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Mining for Peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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Data Brokers Co-Opetition
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
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