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A surprisingly large amount of commentary today marks the beginning of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s from either the Netscape Communications initial public offering of 1995 or Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech of 1996. We believe that this is wrong: we see little sign that...
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The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …
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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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We examine the effect of patenting on the survival prospects of 356 internet-related firms that IPO'd at the height of …
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important ways. This article shows that computerization and use of the Internet are associated with greater hours worked as well …, that trade unions have begun to use the Internet as a tool for servicing members and carrying their message to the public …
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Used properly, the term 'new e-conomy' is warranted. Since 1995, there has been a wave of innovation associated with both the production and use of information technology that has been translated into improved US economic performance. In particular, there has been a substantial acceleration in...
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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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Global e-commerce platforms present new export opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries by significantly lowering the entry barriers of exporting. However, the lack of market selection can lead to a large number of online firms competing for consumers'...
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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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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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