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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

Stanton, Christopher T.; Thomas, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 find...

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A Model of Behavioral Manipulation

Acemoglu, Daron; Makhdoumi, Ali; Malekian, Azarakhsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness,' which captures attributes that make products appear more attractive than they...

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The Industrial Organization of Markets with Two-Sided Platforms

Evans, David S. - 2005

provides an introduction to the economics of 2SPs and its application to several competition policy issues …

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E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Goldmanis, Maris - 2008

While a fast-growing body of research has looked at how the advent and diffusion of e-commerce has affected prices, much less work has investigated e-commerce's impact on the number and type of producers operating in an industry. This paper theoretically and empirically takes up the question of...

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Platform as a Rule Maker : Evidence from Airbnb's Cancellation Policies

Jia, Jian; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-guest rules can drive demand and supply to and from the platform, as a function of the local platform competition between Airbnb … and VRBO. Our results suggest that platform competition sometimes dampens a platform wide pro-guest rule and sometimes … reinforces it, often with heterogeneous effects on different hosts. This implies that platform competition does not necessarily …

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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay

Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

certificate focus on seller inputs such as fast shipping, or include output measures such as consumer ratings? In theory …

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Steering in Online Markets : The Role of Platform Incentives and Credibility

Barach, Moshe A. - 2019

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 platform...

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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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Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms : Evidence from AliExpress

Bai, Jie - 2020

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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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John - 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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