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Targeted Incentives, Broad Impacts: Evidence from an E-commerce Platform
Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat - 2022
Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior … financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers when they provide fast handling and generous return policies on their … behaviors are quality signals. Our results have managerial implications for digital platforms that use targeted incentives. …
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Wealth as a signal in the search model of money
Okumura, Tsunao - 2005
This paper investigates the possibility that wealth (holdings of money) serves as a signal of ability to produce high quality products for agents who cannot directly observe the quality of the products. A producer's wealth may advertise past success in selling products to agents who knew the...
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Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration
Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
the loss due to the lower quality. The anticipation of this effect leads to reduced ex ante incentives for the supplier …?s management to raise quality. A spin-off may therefore be beneficial as it strengthens incentives. Costs and benefits of vertical …
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Innovation, Bestsellers and Digitization - Where to Find the Needle in the Haystack?
Goetz, Georg; Herold, Daniel; Klotz, Phil-Adrian; … - 2020
We empirically analyze the role of e-Commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers in discovering new bestsellers in the book market, using the German market as an example. Using an AR(1)-Process, we find that when a title becomes a bestseller sales increase in e-Commerce and decrease in...
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Umbrella branding and external certification
Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - 2008
In a market environment with random detection of product quality, a firm can employ umbrella branding as a strategy to convince consumers of the high quality of its products. Alternatively, a firm can rely on external certification of the quality of one or both of its products. We characterize...
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The platform economy and social law: Key issues in comparative perspective
Daugareilh, Isabelle (contributor);  … - 2019
This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion....
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Big Tech, the Platform Economy and the European Digital Markets
Brühl, Volker - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 5, pp. 274-282
Digital platforms have become an important part of the digital economy by facilitatingtransactions between large numbers of users and by fostering innovation on collaborativeplatforms. It is striking that platform-based services are dominated by a small number ofglobal players. Most of them are...
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Low quality as a signal of high quality
Clements, Matthew T. - 2010
If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use...
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Warum gibt es Stars? Drei Erklärungsansätze
Franck, Egon - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 81 (2001) 1, pp. 59-64
In der Unterhaltungsbranche sind die Einkommen ausgesprochen ungleich verteilt. Einige wenige Stars erzielen im Vergleich zur Masse der Anbieter Spitzeneinkommen. Welche ökonomischen Mechanismen tragen zur Existenz von Superstars bei?
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Low quality as a signal of high quality
Clements, Matthew T. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-5, pp. 1-22
If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use...
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