"This book looks at two technological advancements in the area of e-commerce, which dramatically seem to change the way consumers shop online. In particular, they automate certain crucial tasks inherent in the 'shopping' activity, thereby relieving ..."--Provided by publisher

The Internet and digitization at the turn of the XXI century have changed the old offline business paradigm, resulting in an explosion of online platform enterprises. Furthermore, the worldwide coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has shown how society and the economy are becoming increasingly...

Products liability in the digital age entails reckoning with the transformative shift away from in-person purchases from brick-and-mortar stores toward digital purchases from e-commerce platforms. The epochal rise of the online storefront has vastly expanded the prevalence of direct-to-consumer...

With the rise of the sharing economy, more and more retailers have begun to join the e-commerce platform to expand sales channels. As an important means to improve consumer retention, the membership system is widely used in major e-commerce platforms. In this paper, we develop a research...

Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half. We estimate a structural model of demand and entry in the app...

The proposed Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to place more responsibility on online platform operators to control information published by users on their websites. That is a welcome development in the light of scandals concerning fake news and the surreptitious influencing of voters through...