This paper studies a model of search engine competition with endogenous obfuscation. Platforms may differ in the …

paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … with respect to their initial cost distribution. This bias fosters future competition and reduces intertemporal expected …

unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters payoffs, but they have … endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (policy experimentation), future political competition …

crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …

We study the extent of fraud in initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether information disclosure prior to the issuance … predicts fraud. We document different types of fraud, and that fraudulent ICOs are on average much larger than the sample … suggests that there are risks related to disclosing the code. Generally, we find it extremely difficult to predict fraud with …