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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John J. - 2017
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies
Athey, Susan - 2018
increasingly central role in tech companies – tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the …
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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce
Dinerstein, Michael - 2015
that retail margins are on the order of 10%, and use the model to analyze the design of search rankings. Our model explains … most of the effects of a major re-design of eBay's product search, and allows us to identify conditions where narrowing …
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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
settings as reflected by user responses to market design features (allocation of visibility, investments in human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062548
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Steering in Online Markets : The Role of Platform Incentives and Credibility
Barach, Moshe; Golden, Joseph; Horton, John J. - 2022
Platform marketplaces can potentially steer buyers to certain sellers by recommending or guaranteeing those sellers …. Money-back guarantees—which create a direct financial stake for the platform in seller performance—might be particularly … effective at steering, as they align buyer and platform interests in creating a good match. We report the results of an …
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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?
Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - 2023
This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an online labor market. Labor demand elasticities determine workers’ wages, and buyers’ past market experience shapes both their job posting frequency and hiring rates. We...
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Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms : Evidence from Aliexpress
Bai, Jie; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Liu, Jin; Yi Xu, Daniel - 2022
We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress establish the existence of search and information frictions. A randomized experiment that offers new exporters exogenous demand and...
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The Rise in Firm-Level Volatility : Causes and Consequences
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
We document that the recent decline in aggregate volatility has been accompanied by a large increase in firm level risk. The negative relationship between firm and aggregate risk seems to be present across industries in the US, and across OECD countries. Firm volatility increases after...
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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antras, Pol - 2012
We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
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How Firms Export : Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions
Manova, Kalina - 2014
The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade –...
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