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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 users from transferring their ratings to other...
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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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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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Selling cross-border in online markets : the impact of the ban on geoblocking strategies
Bourreau, Marc; Manenti, Fabio M. - 2020
We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking...
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Quality certificates alleviate consumer aversion to sponsored search advertising
Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng - 2022
We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a...
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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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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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Is competition only one click away? : the Digital Markets Act impact on Google Maps
Pape, Louis-Daniel; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2024
This paper examines the impact of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on consumer behavior, focusing on changes in Google's search result presentation in the European Union (EU). Specifically, it investigates the effects of Google's removal of clickable maps in search results, a modification...
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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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Mergers in the digital economy
Gautier, Axel; Lamesch, Joe - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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