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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020
price and frequency of export transactions and with a reduction in average distance of firms' exports. We rationalize our …-income markets. These changes in export patterns imply that advanced economies become more specialized in "fast-fashion" - exporting …
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When and why do buyers rate in online markets?
Hui, Xiang; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2022
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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Learning from online ratings
Hui, Xiang; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2024
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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Lock-in effects in online labor markets
Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021
This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability … on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent … comparing a policy regime with and without reputation portability, we vary lock-in exploitation using platform fees to consider …
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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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Rating systems and the end-game effect : when reputation works and when it doesn’t
Belletti, Chiara; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2024
Do rating systems provide incentives to sellers when they are about to exit a market? Using data from Airbnb, this paper examines how end-of-game considerations affect hosts’ effort decisions. We take advantage of a regulation on short-term rentals in the City of Los Angeles to identify hosts...
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Taxes in an e-commerce generation
Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2016
Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis. This results in different effective tax rates depending on the way in which goods and services are purchased and the characteristics of both the products and the sellers. We...
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The internet as a tax haven?
Agrawal, David R. - 2021
If online transactions are tax-free, increased online shopping may lower tax rates as jurisdictions seek to reduce tax 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...
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Online belief elicitation methods
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2021
We evaluate the quality of beliefs elicited from online respondents, comparing several characteristics of two widely used elicitation mechanisms (the Binarized Scoring Rule - BSR - and a stochastic variation of the Becker-deGroot-Marshak mechanism -BDM) against a flat fee baseline for a variety...
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Attention, recall and purchase : experimental evidence on online news and advertising
Valletti, Tommaso M.; Veiga, André - 2021
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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