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International trade is subject to information incompleteness. Firms must therefore engage in a costly search process to find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether this is actually the case and the underlying...
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Digital platforms facilitate interactions between consumers and merchants that allow collection of profiling information, which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in market failures both on-platform, among merchants, and...
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and areas of concern for market competition, labour and employment, fake news and misinformation, consumer protection …
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Congestion is a widespread phenomenon in two-sided markets, but evidence on its costs and benefits is limited. Using data from an online dating platform, we document a large excess demand, or congestion, for some women. By exploiting exogenous variation in the number of men and women using the...
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market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … tools should focus on value creation and its distribution before focusing on competition. The scope of regulatory … govern the platform ecosystem; iii) dynamic efficiency and competition ensure that incentives for market misconduct and …
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