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We analyze structural state dependence in brand choice using variation from brand switching during stock-outs caused by hurricanes. We derive a simple test for structural state dependence based on the time-series of choice persistence for households affected by the stock-outs. Using data from...
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Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis … European Union in response to e-commerce. We then examine various policy options in the United States - maintaining the status …
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avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …
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We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking...
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Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm … warn that e-commerce erodes tax revenue - true enough for some localities - but, more accurately, changing transaction …
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What is the effect of e-commerce on the geographic distribution of local sales tax revenues? Using COVID-19 as a shock … the state and local public finance landscape. As e-commerce increases, a destination basis for remote sales taxes results … to online shopping and hand-collected high-frequency data on local sales tax revenue, we document an important shift in …
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Requiring firms, rather than individuals, to remit sales taxes improves tax compliance. In the U.S., this shift toward … high-frequency local sales tax revenue data, we show that due to the increased compliance after Wayfair, revenues increased …
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), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales. Using a year's worth of hourly data for individual firms, we estimate a …
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Online ratings play an important role in many markets. We study the often disputed information content of these ratings, by proposing a reduced-form Bayesian model of the typical buyer's rating decision. Our empirical evidence based on eBay raw data is in line with even intricate predictions...
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Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller’s type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns...
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