We provide an economic model of an e-commerce retail platform (e.g., Amazon) that offers a fulfillment service (e.g., "Fulfilled By Amazon") to merchants that sell on its platform. We demonstrate that the introduction of such a service generates distributional effects for the platform...

This paper studies the long-run relationship between historical indigenous presence and modern tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We georeference information on the historical location of indigenous groups, which groups went extinct, and the likely underlying extinction causes. We...

We survey the literature on the economics of eCommerce with particular emphasis on the antitrust debate about Amazon. The business model of such a hybrid marketplace is based on monetization through referral fees on third party sellers hosted on the platform and direct margins on own products....

Land users make decisions in an increasingly dynamic environment. Changes in expectations are driven by market and non-market factors, but research on market related drivers of land use change so far dominates in the literature. This paper examines how political discourses affect deforestation...