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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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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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How can policymakers promote women-led exporting firms? In this paper, we study the role of online business platforms to reduce informational barriers to exporting for women entrepreneurs. We hypothesize that, if the costs associated with accessing digital platforms are more symmetric across...
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Online labour platforms are redefining the world of work, but little is known even now about the drivers of worker engagement in this type of activity. Earlier studies focused on individual preferences and job characteristics such as flexibility or low entry barriers, but the relative role of...
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little, fierce competition between providers of similar services is expected. We consider a model where two e … prefer the less popular and cheaper one. -- E-commerce ; Intermediary ; Competition ; Listing fee ; Closing fee …
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