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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 the combined value lower than the sum of the values of the two datasets, data brokers …
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Targeted Incentives, Broad Impacts : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform
Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat - 2022
Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior of all sellers in the equilibrium. In this paper, we study a policy change on a large e-commerce platform that offers financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers...
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Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports
Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana M.; Merchan, Federico; … - 2021
This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116042
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An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2011
I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...
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Running the U.S. Economy at Full Throttle is a Stressful Variant of Capitalism
Komlos, John - 2022
Maximizing output without taking into consideration the negative externalities generated, including the harm to the mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic performance including working more, generating income,...
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves …
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Migration between Platforms
Biglaiser, Gary - 2020
We study incumbency advantage in markets with positive consumption externalities. Users of an incumbent platform receive stochastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant. They can accept a migration opportunity or wait for a future opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to...
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Why Isn't Uber Worker-Managed? A Model of Digital Platform Cooperatives
Belloc, Filippo - 2019
Thanks to algorithmic management, the digital platform sector does not require sophisticated governance structures and labour intensity tends to be higher than in traditional sectors. So, why aren’t usually digital labour platforms worker cooperatives? We develop a simple model to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866809
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Profit-Sharing Rules and the Taxation of Multinational Internet Platforms
Bloch, Francis - 2019
This paper analyzes taxation of an Internet platform attracting users from different jurisdictions. When corporate income tax rates are different in the two jurisdictions, the platform distorts prices and outputs in order to shift profit to the low-tax country. We analyze the comparative statics...
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