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, 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 …
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Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of …
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This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...
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ratings and content of their existing reviews, and examines its implications for platforms and businesses. Using both primary … their existing reviews across various platforms. Consumers are motivated by the desire to provide more accurate and updated … ratings post-creation and propose that review updates can benefit consumers, businesses, and platforms. …
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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 …
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This paper examines the impact of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on consumer behavior, focusing on changes in Google'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...
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This paper studies the impact of Generative AI technologies on the demand for online freelancers using a large dataset from a leading global freelancing platform. We identify the types of jobs that are more affected by Generative AI and quantify the magnitude of the heterogeneous impact. Our...
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Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior … behaviors are quality signals. Our results have managerial implications for digital platforms that use targeted incentives. …
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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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The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...
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