Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...

Spanish abstract. El cómputo de alto rendimiento es una necesidad para el desarrollo de investigaciones con grandes volúmenes de datos. La creciente demanda de este tipo de resultados ha impulsado a varios centros de investigación a poner en funcionamiento recursos de cómputo de alto...

In economic and social sciences it is crucial to test theoretical models against large and reliable databases. The general research challenge is to build up a well-structured database that suits the given research question well and that is cost efficient at the same time. In this paper we focus...

This paper uses Revans’ theory of action learning to understand cases of collective IT development and implementation projects within a multi-national company. It means having to deal with an international project, cultural differences, diflerences in levels of knowledge and differences in the...

The aim of this paper is to study the empirical phenomenon of rating bubbles, i.e. clustering on extremely positive values in e-commerce platforms and rating web sites. By means of a field experiment that exogenously manipulates prior ratings for a hotel in an important Italian tourism...

In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well?...

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...

The present paper sets out to outline the theoretical frameworks and the research methods that may be used in addressing general issues of web behaviors and in formulating new researchable marketing questions. In view of this, we provide a brief literature review in three major areas of web...

Proximity to information resources has repeatedly been shown to affect urban development. However, individuals’ increased abilities to access information content electronically may have dampened urban areas’ comparative advantage of proximity-driven knowledge flows. We investigate the...