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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model
Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...
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Antitrust, Regulation, and User Union in the Era of Digital Platforms and Big Data
Cong, Lin William; Mayer, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying … and platforms' investments in data infrastructure. Data improves service quality, causing a feedback loop that tends to … other users, (ii) market concentration, and (iii) platforms' incentives to invest in data infrastructure, causing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537775
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki - 2005
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467145
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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 transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938698
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482319
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
features prices across retail locations around the world, suggesting that variable mark-ups play a key role in accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462422
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In a World Without Borders : The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce
Goolsbee, Austan - 1998
The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers usually pay no sales tax. This paper uses new data on the purchase decisions of approximately 25,000 online users to examine the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471949
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453070
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John - 2017
recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new …-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455283
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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy : Evidence from Windows
Athey, Susan - 2013
This paper evaluates the nature, relative incidence and drivers of software piracy. In contrast to prior studies, we analyze data that allows us to measure piracy for a specific product - Windows 7 - which was associated with a significant level of private sector investment. Using anonymized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458908