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recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new … empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches to disproportionate ethnic …
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We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self …
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As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies – tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists...
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data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer search and price competition when retailers offer homogeneous goods. We find …
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Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
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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...
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This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an …
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We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative...
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assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on the data first presented in Martin Schindler (2009), and … translate the information in the AREAER into a usable data set. We also characterize the data with respect to the prevalence of …
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Data is nonrival: a person's location history, medical records, and driving data can be used by any number of firms … should own data? What restrictions should apply to the use of data? We show that in equilibrium, firms may not adequately …, there may be large social gains to data being used broadly across firms, even in the presence of privacy considerations …
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