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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration
Bloom, David E. - 2022
about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final … in the arbitration decisions, this evidence of mechanical compromise behavior should be viewed as characterizing the … overall operation of conventional arbitration mechanisms and not the behavior of individual arbitrators in any particular case …
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Rules, Coordination and Manipulability Among Arbitrators
Currie, Janet - 2007
of wage settlements negotiated without arbitration using a panel of contracts between teachers and school boards in the …
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per-capita income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that positively links prices of tradables to consumer income....
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Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce
Dolfen, Paul - 2019
E-Commerce represents a rapidly growing share of consumer spending in the U.S. We use transactions-level data on credit and debit cards from Visa, Inc. between 2007 and 2017 to quantify the resulting consumer surplus. We estimate that E-Commerce spending reached 8% of consumption by 2017,...
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Price Setting in Online Markets : Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-Border Integration
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the U.S. and Canada, a rapidly growing segment of the retail sector. Relative to prices in regular stores, prices in online markets are more flexible as well as exhibit stronger pass-through (60-75 percent) and faster convergence...
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Returns to Consumer Search : Evidence from Ebay
Blake, Tom - 2016
A growing body of empirical literature finds that consumers are relatively limited in how much they search over product characteristics. We assemble a dataset of search and purchase behavior from eBay to quantify the returns, and thus implied costs, to consumer search on the internet. The...
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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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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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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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Measuring the Effects of Arbitration on Wage Levels : the Case of Police Officers
Ashenfelter, Orley; Hyslop, Dean - 2021
In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effect that the provision of an arbitration statute has on the … wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political … sets are remarkably consistent and provide no robust evidence that the presence of arbitration statues has a consistent …
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