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This text is a working paper on the social resilience of the Internet, which means who can change how we do end …-to-end best effort digital communication and how can they change it. I assume a bottom up organized version of the Internet and … focus on the Internet itself. The texts goes through varying factors capable of through social means changing what the …
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of broadband internet in Norwegian firms over the period 2000-2008. We use panel data with information on Norwegian firms … points, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet in firms. We find … that adoption of broadband internet makes trade patterns more sensitive to distance and economic size. Going from no …
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Alibaba's Taobao is China's dominant C2C e-commerce platform. Relying on novel transaction level data from its electronics category, this paper examines the roles of distance as well as seller and buyer experience in Chinese e-commerce. Our estimate of a gravity model shows that the distance...
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Platforms refer to intermediaries that facilitate economic interaction between two sets of agents wherein the decisions of one set of agents is likely to have an effect on the other via direct and/or indirect externalities. Given their nature, platforms need to find the appropriate balance...
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. Based on theoretical considerations we argue that in the special case of tourist surveys internet-based surveys are … the context of internet surveys in developing or threshold countries. …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...
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Grundlage einer qualitativen Analyse von populären Kommunikationsforen des chinesischen Internet sowie teilnehmender Beobachtung …
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This paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We provide a simple theoretical model capturing the basic trade-off between the degree of privacy intrusion and the informativeness of advertising. We derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding a...
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