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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 … the different ending rules under controlled conditions, without the other differences between internet auction houses that …
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identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers …
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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The new information and communication technology, ICT, induces households to take over tasks from firms and government agencies, using tools and systems provided by these very same organizations. The result is often joint production activities. We argue that the importance of ICT for the...
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We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...
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We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e … suggest that consumers dislike search advertising in our setting, but quality certificates mitigate this aversion and increase … advertising sales. …
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Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...
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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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becomes lessdistinctive; and or it introduces advertising.These are timely issues, given the extent to which public … broadcasters are increasingly criticised forseeking popularity, losing distinctiveness, and in many cases, introducing advertising … parallels to other sectors where services are also offered free at the point of access, butfinanced by advertising. The most …
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Digital media goods and digital media platforms exhibit cost structures and network effects that imply that price and quantity effects of consumption taxes are qualitatively different compared to what we typically find for physical goods. For instance, in most European countries and US states,...
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