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The Internet roared to the scene in Latin America and it is transforming the way Latin Americans interact, shop, bank …, and spend their time. The Internet is changing regional consumption patterns, the landscape of regional companies, and the …, Internet of Things, and so on- are empowering LAC companies of all sizes to dramatically cut costs, improve customer service …
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-commerce intermediaries (internet shops) compete for sellers. We show that two non-identical shops may coexist in equilibrium if the …
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Internet auctions, such as those on eBay, are known for multiple bidding and sniping. Buyers send bids in the closing … times at the same auction. We model Internet auction as a dynamic multi-unit auction. This let us explain the rationality of …
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of internet and platform work. Our analysis uses the ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey carried out in Spring and … internet work is often a secondary source of income, this is likely to reflect a greater juggling of offline and online jobs …
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Participatory programs can reduce the informational and power asymmetries that engender mistrust. These programs, however, cannot include every citizen. Hence, it is important to evaluate if providing information about those programs could affect trust among those who do not participate. We...
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telecommunication infrastructures that exogenously determined the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We find that …
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User data fuel the digital economy, while individual privacy is at stake. Governments react differently to this challenge. Estonia, a small Baltic state, has become a role model for the renewal of the social contract in times of big data. The Estonian example suggests that online governance is...
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This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
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This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...
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