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Digital fiscal stimulus and SMEs : insights from Thailand's Half and Half Program

Athiphat Muthitacharoen - 2023 - This Version: January 2024

This study leverages the unique opportunities presented by the digitization of economic activity to investigate the impact of Thailand's 'Half and Half' program-a targeted, digital co-pay fiscal stimulus-on SMEs and consumer spending. Utilizing weekly province-level data from LINE MAN Wongnai, a...

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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators : an alternative approach using RePEc data

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011

In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the … gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric … research performance of scientist, we propose to apply principal component analysis in this data-rich environment. This …

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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment

Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014

We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...

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Facebook shadow profiles

Aguiar, Luis; Peukert, Christian; Schäfer, Maximilian; … - 2022

Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...

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Value creation by ad-funded platforms

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022

We identify features of interactions on online platforms that make an ad-funded business model attractive for the platform, but also for consumers. We then show that ad-funded platforms heavily rely on data for their ability to create value for their users. Formally, we show that data...

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Competing for attention on information platforms : the case of news outlets

Meyer, Tim; Kerkhof, Anna; Cennamo, Carmelo; … - 2022

Mainstream logic supports the idea that platforms bring large benefits to firms, especially smaller ones, by opening up access to a broader set of consumers and making firms' products easier to find. However, this argument mostly applies to transaction platforms that match consumer preferences...

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The economics of platform liability

Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo - 2021

Public authorities in many jurisdictions are concerned about the proliferation of illegal content and products on online platforms. In this paper, we provide an economic appraisal of platform liability that highlights the effects of a stricter liability rule on several key variables such as...

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Apparent competition in two-sided platforms

Guven, Gokhan; Inci, Eren; Russo, Antonio - 2017

We study a platform's design of membership and transaction fees when sellers compete and buyers cannot observe the prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them transaction fees that increase with sales revenue, and...

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Crowdfunding dynamics

Belleflamme, Paul; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - 2019 - This version: August 9, 2019

Various forms of social learning and network effects are at work on crowdfunding platforms, giving rise to informational and payoff externalities. We use novel entrepreneur-backer data to study how these externalities shape funding dynamics, within and across projects. We find that backers...

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