's search result presentation in the European Union (EU). Specifically, it investigates the effects of Google's removal of … clickable maps in search results, a modification implemented in January 2024. This change forces users to perform additional … searches to access Google Maps or alternative mapping services, thus increasing search costs. Using a difference …

, and taxing the consumption of digital services from two-sided platforms. With respect to digital services, we discuss … whether consumption taxes should be imposed on both monetized platforms and non-monetized platforms such as social media, and …

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 …

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of …

on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent … users from transferring their ratings to other platforms, inducing lock-in effects and high switching costs and leaving … reveals how reputational investments can produce switching costs that platforms can exploit. Experimentally, the results …

), to be levied on the revenue of large digital platforms from advertising, online intermediation, and/or the transmission … platforms from particular locations. We provide stylized illustrations of how platform rent can be assigned to specific …