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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
Chang, Hung-Hao - 2020
We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the …
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E-commerce During Covid : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies
Alcedo, Joel - 2022
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized … consumption increased more in economies with higher pre-pandemic e-commerce shares, exacerbating the digital divide across … recreation has fallen below its pre-pandemic trend, but we observe a longer-lasting shift to digital in retail and restaurants …
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Returns to Consumer Search : Evidence from eBay
Blake, Thomas - 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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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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Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets
Cavallo, Alberto - 2020
The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to changes in consumer expenditure patterns that can introduce significant bias in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481547
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Misinformation During a Pandemic
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020
misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus … pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481612
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How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data
Chetty, Raj - 2020
employment when consumer spending is constrained by health concerns. During a pandemic, it may be more fruitful to mitigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481626
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Girls' Night In? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing
Giardili, Soledad; Jain, Sanjay; Miller, Amalia R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We present the first objective evidence on how COVID-19 lockdowns affected internet browser usage in Africa, using detailed digital trace data on PC-based and mobile-based browsing patterns of 316 Kenyans who had access to a PC, covering the period before and during Kenya's first national...
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Flagship Entry in Online Marketplaces
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Lu, Zhentong; Zhou, Xiaolu; Fang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the world of omnichannel retail, some brands open a flagship store at online marketplaces, while others avert it. Focusing on a large e-commerce platform, we empirically study how flagship entry affects consumers, the platform, and various sellers on the platform
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629459
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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