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The Economics Approach to Cities
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
The economic approach to cities relies on a spatial equilibrium for workers, employers and builders. The worker's equilibrium implies that positive attributes in one location, like access to downtown or high wages, are offset by negative attributes, like high housing prices. The employer's...
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Cities and Smoking
Darden, Michael - 2022
In 1956, 52% of urban men and 42% of rural men smoked cigarettes. By 2010, the disparity had flipped: 24.7% of urban men and 30.6% of rural men smoked. Smoking remains the greatest preventable cause of mortality in the United States, and understanding the underlying causes of place-specific...
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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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Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today
Bresnahan, Timothy - 2016
The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...
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Information Technology and the Future of Cities
Gaspar, Jess; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
Will improvements in information technology eliminate face-to- face interactions and make cities obsolete? In this paper, we present a model where individuals make contacts and choose whether to use electronic or face-to-face meetings in their interactions. Cities are modeled as a means of...
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The Economics of Internet Markets
Levin, Jonathan - 2014
The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in Dns Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018
We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
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Online Auctions
Ockenfels, Axel; Reiley, David; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - 2021
The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
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Geography and the Internet : Is the Internet a Substitute or a Complement for Cities?
Sinai, Todd M.; Waldfogel, Joel - 2021
We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to … draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for cities. We document that larger markets have … content, suggesting the Internet is a complement to cities. Yet, holding local online content constant, people are less likely …
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