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Peeling away the layers : impacts of durable tariff elimination
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Henn, Christian - 2018
We demonstrate that durable MFN tariff elimination affects trade patterns through several layers, and magnitudes of effects are sizable. The WTO Information Technology Agreement's (ITA) unique setting allows us to overcome the challenges associated with identifying effects of non-discriminatory...
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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Mums go online : is the internet changing the demand for healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020
We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
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Taxing goods and services in a digital era
Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2020
Taxing consumption in the digital economy poses unique challenges for fiscal authorities. Recent institutional reforms, such as states changing remittance rules for the sales and use tax following the Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, were enacted in order to increase tax...
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The Digital Services Tax as a tax on location-specific rent
Cui, Wei; Hashimzade, Nigar - 2019
In 2018, the European Council and the UK and Spanish governments each proposed to introduce a Digital Services Tax (DST), to be levied on the revenue of large digital platforms from advertising, online intermediation, and/or the transmission of data. We offer a rationalization of the DST as a...
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Marketplace lending of SMEs
Cumming, Douglas J.; Hornuf, Lars - 2020
Peer-to-business lending refers to online platforms facilitating loans from individuals to smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conjecture that easy-to-understand risk ratings conveyed by the platform play a pronounced role in influencing the borrowing success of SMEs and that more...
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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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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part …
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Digital technologies and firms' employment and training
Caselli, Mauro; Fourrier-Nicolai, Edwin; Fracasso, Andrea; … - 2024
This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms’ employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical approach, constructing instrumental variables based on...
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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024
We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...
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