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Robots and firms
Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019
robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997063
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Targeted incentives, broad impacts : evidence from an e-commerce platform
Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat - 2022
Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior of all sellers in the equilibrium. In this paper, we study a policy change on a large e-commerce platform that offers financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers...
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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects
Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023
We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …
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Sales taxation, spatial agglomeration, and the Internet
Agrawal, David R.; Wildasin, David E. - 2019
Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033135
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Shop around and you pay more
Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw; Heravi, Saeed M.; … - 2014
We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393118
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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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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination
Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021
Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...
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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...
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Robot imports and firm-level outcomes
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Fadinger, Harald - 2020
result suggests that productivity gains from automation may not be entirely passed on to consumers in the form of lower … between robot imports and employment, exogenous changes in automation lead to job losses. We also find that robot imports … increase productivity and the employment share of high-skill professions, but have a weak effect on total sales. The latter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383713
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Labor supply and automation innovation
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020
supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …
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