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we highlight how our fee discrimination strategies can be derived in practice using data from airbnb.com. In addition, we …
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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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discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation …
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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 …
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-enhancing because it solves the data bottleneck market failure. Our findings imply that there is scope for the introduction of a … platforms to collect and analyze more data. It has ambiguous effects on their competitors that depend on the exact relationship …
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online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles … varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing returns to the number of observed users and tracked websites. However …, prediction quality increases considerably when web browsing data can be combined with demographic data. We show that Google …
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. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data … levels before the introduction of the regulation. This rich data set allows us to apply a difference-in-difference estimator …
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We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political influence, their perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption/bribes are uncorrelated at the firm level; (b) firms that...
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of data. We offer a rationalization of the DST as a tax on location-specific rent (LSR). That is, just as many countries …
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propositions. The data examined provide strong support for the importance of simple platform ratings in influencing investor …
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