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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major 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...
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E-exchange and the boundary between households and organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Wikström, Solveig - 2002
The new information and communication technology, ICT, induces households to take over tasks from firms and government agencies, using tools and systems provided by these very same organizations. The result is often joint production activities. We argue that the importance of ICT for the...
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The impact of consumer protection in the digital age : evidence from the European Union
Rösner, Anja; Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data from the Special and Flash Eurobarometer for the years...
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Intermediaries in the online advertising market
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2021
A large share of the ads displayed by digital publishers (e.g., newspapers and blogs) are sold via intermediaries (e.g., Google), that have large market power and reportedly allocate the ads in an opaque way. We study the incentives of an intermediary to disclose consumer information to...
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On the evolution of market institutions : the platform design paradox
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos (contributor);  … - 2007
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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017
We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...
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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015
We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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The internet as a tax haven?
Agrawal, David R. - 2021
avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …
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How social reputation networks interact with competition in anonymous online trading : an experimental study
Bolton, Gary E. (contributor);  … - 2008
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