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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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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
sold in 29 European, Asian, and North American markets via the Internet by Spain's second largest apparel manufacture … cross-country price variations of identical items purchased via the Internet by consumers who do not take advantage of … features prices across retail locations around the world, suggesting that variable mark-ups play a key role in accounting for …
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2014
bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …
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Might Global Uncertainty Promote International Trade?
Baley, Isaac - 2019
Common wisdom dictates that uncertainty impedes trade—we show that uncertainty can fuel more trade in a simple general equilibrium trade model with information frictions. In equilibrium, increases in uncertainty increase both the mean and the variance in returns to exporting implying that...
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Counterfeit-Product Trade
Grossman, Gene M.; Shapiro, Carl - 2021
We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of...
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Risks and Global Supply Chains : What We Know and What We Need to Know
Baldwin, Richard; Freeman, Rebecca - 2022
Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...
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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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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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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy : Evidence from Windows
Athey, Susan - 2014
be attributed to a small number of widely distributed "hacks" that are available through the Internet, (b) the incidence …
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E-Commerce During COVID : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies
Alcedo, Joel; Cavallo, Alberto; Dwyer, Bricklin; … - 2022
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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