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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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Tax Avoidance Through E-Commerce and Cross-Border Shopping
Harbolt, Benjamin - 2019
As e-commerce has grown over the last few decades so has states' concern for its use for sales tax avoidance. Using a panel of Washington State tax jurisdictions from 2005 through 2015, I estimate the effect of a sales tax regime change on the elasticities of taxable sales. I find the regime...
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Online Political Debates
D'Amico, Leonardo; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2022
We study how individuals comment on political news posted on Reddit’s main political forum during the 2016 US Presidential Election. We present two main findings. First, opposite partisan users comment on the same news sources, but on different news. Second, partisan users behave very...
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Pandemic Consumption
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Kornejew, Martin - 2023
the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical …
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Consumer Sentiment During the COVID-19 Pandemic : The Role of Others' Beliefs
Bui, Dzung; Hayo, Bernd; Giang Hong Nghiem; Dräger, Lena - 2021
pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others’ beliefs … about the appropriateness of the government’s or the general public’s reaction to the pandemic. The first treatment is …
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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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Working from Home in European Countries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2022
countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Surviving Pandemics : The Role of Spillovers
Ayyagari, Meghana; Cheng, Yuxi; Weinberger, Ariel - 2022
an important determinant of firm resiliency during the pandemic …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and European Trade Flows : Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Model
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First … pandemic on both exports and imports in both the short and the long run, and also suggest that digitalization was instrumental … indicates that both the GCF and the Covid-19 pandemic had negative effects on trade but of a different magnitude. The use of …
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Communities and Testing for COVID-19
Stillman, Steven; Tonin, Mirco - 2021
Between November 18th and 25th, 2020, 348,810 out of 500,607 (69.7 percent) eligible residents of the South Tyrol region of Italy volunteered to take a Covid-19 rapid antigen test. We examine the community characteristics that are associated with higher testing rates. Our findings point to a...
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