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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
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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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce
Dinerstein, Michael - 2015
Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...
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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
of inquiry in this market setting that are central to the broader digitization research agenda: 1) How will the … digitization of this market influence the distribution of economic activity (geographic distribution of work, income distribution … acquisition, machine-aided recommendations)?; 3) How will the digitization of this market affect social welfare (increased …
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...
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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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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-Commerce in China
Cai, Hongbin - 2013
large transaction-level data set from the early years of Eachnet.com (an eBay equivalent in China), we find evidence that is …
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Connecting the Countryside Via E-Commerce : Evidence from China
Couture, Victor - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of the first nation-wide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, we find little evidence for income gains to rural...
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