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The developments in electronic documents that are seen in recent years suggest that use of paper will be completely abandoned in all business processes after some time. As an advantage of the developments in information systems, the use of electronic documents has become widespread and even...
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Within-state variation in the search frequency for “amazon” at Google is used to measure the industry specific impact of e-commerce on retail employment. To instrument for exogenous variation in e-commerce exposure, I rely on random variation in consumer's use of the Internet for tasks like...
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If online transactions are tax-free, increased online shopping may lower tax rates as jurisdictions seek to reduce tax avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because the internet enforces destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet...
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The United States championed the creation of new rules for the digital economy in TPP. Analyzing this effort as “digital megaregulation” foregrounds aspects that the conventional “digital trade” framing tends to conceal. On both accounts, TPP’s most consequential rules for the digital...
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This paper addresses the regulatory and policy environments conducive for e-commerce to thrive. In particular, as regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to investigate their role in setting the regulatory...
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. Imperfect price competition may arise because of vertical product differentiation, incomplete consumer awareness, and near … higher than for traditional bookselling. Using price and demand information for individual books over a number of weeks, we … find counter-cyclical and cross-sectional price variation inconsistent with perfect price competition …
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The Catawba Digital Economic Zone (“CDEZ”) achieved a number of firsts when it launched in late 2022: the world’s first …
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and to know about the situations of ecommerce business in different parts of the world.The COVID-19 pandemic has had a …
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In March 1999, a small number of Californians discovered a new world called "Norrath", populated by an exotic but … the United States. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the new world is its location. Norrath is a virtual world that …
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inception in 1996; significantly, each world also seems to grow its own economy, with production, assets, and trade with Earth …, if they do grow, how will that affect real-world economies and governments? To shed light on the first question, the … suggests that the desire to live in a game world is deep-rooted and driven by game technology. The model reveals a certain …
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