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An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...
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that limit perceived project success on OLMs. Using psychological contract theory, we theorize how common OLM features … platform, Upwork, and find that - contrary to predictions from agency theory - projects equipped with strict freelancer …
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This report provides an overview on the economics of attention intermediaries. It addresses the following questions: What are the economics of attention intermediaries? For competition policy, how should markets be defined and market power of attention intermediaries be assessed? What theories...
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We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur privacy costs, we show that the equilibrium level of data provision is distorted and can be inefficiently high or low: if overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are...
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We study the incentives of a streaming platform to bias consumption when products are vertically differentiated. The platform offers mixed bundles of content to monetize consumers' interest in variety and pays royalties to sellers based on the effective consumption of the content they produce....
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value the collective reputation of their institution, e.g. due to a prosocial signaling motive or identity concerns. The … initial insight of the analysis is that there exists both a highreputation, low-wage equilibrium and a low-reputation, high …-wage equilibrium. Importantly, the comparative statics of motivation and wage differ between the equilibria: starting from low-reputation …
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