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We study and contrast pricing and price evolution of online only (Dotcom) and online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRs) based on two panel data sets collected from online toy markets. Panel data regression analyses reveal several interesting empirical results: over time, OBMCRs and...
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Critics from both the right and the left claim that modern antitrust doctrine, rooted in consumer welfare, is inadequate to handle the challenges of the twenty-first century economy. They express nostalgia for 1960s antitrust, when the field had no clear objectives and cases were decided on...
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estimate the impacts of several competitive strategies on the value of Amazon.com, the well-known Internet retailer, during its … online and could be useful for strategic planning in new Internet ventures. …
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due to significant declines in entry costs. We instead find evidence of large roles for the development of the internet …
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due to significant declines in entry costs. We instead find evidence of large roles for the development of the internet …
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Based on the publicly available information on the data sources and methodology used by the Census Bureau to estimate e-commerce and physical retail sales, and based on detailed e-mail communications with the Census official responsible for the retail trade data, we found, in a version of this...
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Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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This paper focuses on one of the most important digital platform sectors—E-commerce—addressing the antitrust enforcement, comparing it with new regulatory approaches, learning from experiences in the US, EU, China, and Japan. E-commerce is shown to have distinct characteristics, as compared...
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The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other … internet creates policing challenges, leading to the abuse of established rules and standards. In the context of academia, this … otherwise). Using unique internet search indices of the policies and resources, we find that the two are positively associated …
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Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
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