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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Online Marketplaces"”.
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Estimation and Optimization in Online Marketplaces
… estimation and optimization problems within the online platform domain, using data-driven approaches in operations management. The thesis consists of three components. Motivated by the unique setting of Airbnb, in the first work, we consider a game-theoretical setup in which each seller on the …
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Essays on value creation in online marketplaces
… theoretical approaches. Chapter 2 examines the online review system, which is the new type of information technology that replaces the traditional word-of-mouth communication. Particularly, we study the practice of the platform owner that uses monetary incentives to attract reviewers. The …
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Scalable Models and Policy Learning for Online Marketplaces
… scalable models and policy learning methods for online marketplaces. The underlying theme across all chapters is the development of data-driven practical solutions that help improve business operations and customer experiences in e-commerce. The first chapter offers a new perspective on creating …
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Essays on the Design of Online Marketplaces and Platforms
… of three chapters that concern the design of online marketplaces and platforms. In Chapter 1, I estimate the impact of increasing the extent to which content recommendations are personalized by analyzing the results of a randomized experiment on approximately 900,000 Spotify users across …
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An Examination of Price Dispersion in an Online Retail Marketplace
… three essays that analyze price dispersion in an online retail marketplace. Price dispersion is a measure of the variation in prices that sellers charge for products. Online price dispersion has been thoroughly analyzed in the past decade as it has numerous implications for firm pricing strategy …
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Optimización de la red de Fulfillment en un Marketplace online
… networks pose a significant challenge for online marketplaces due to their high investment and elevated fixed costs. As a result, they require a large volume of transactions to achieve profitability. At the same time, they must compete not only with other online marketplaces but also with …
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Essays in industrial organization
… fee policy with a specific focus on two-sided online marketplaces. The main contributions of the paper are threefold. First, I study a setting with coordinated price experimentation along the three different fee dimensions that are common to such marketplaces. Second, I describe the empirical …
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The broadcast marketplace : Designing a more efficient local marketplace for goods and services
Today's online marketplaces for goods and services are imperfect. Participants make an initial post expressing their intention to buy or sell an object, but all offers on this post are private. These offers can be seen as expressions of other participants' intentions to buy or sell the same item. …
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LA METAMORFOSI DEL CRIMINE ORGANIZZATO NELL¿ERA DIGITALE
… services, cryptocurrencies, and illicit online marketplaces, as well as to recent law enforcement operations involving platforms like EncroChat and SkyECC. The research further adopts an expanded categorisation of cybercrime, distinguishing between cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent …
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Leveraging large language model embeddings to enhance diversity and mitigate the filter bubble effect in recommender systems
… systems used on social media platforms or online marketplaces to influence user behavior. While customization may improve user retention and decision quality, the filter bubble may hinder discovery and intensify polarization, while also reducing the degree of interaction between individuals …
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The bits and bytes of food : study of emerging Internet-based food businesses
… are also experiencing a shift towards the online world. This shift is driven by increasing convenience and popularity of doing business over the Internet and supported by rapid technological proliferation. The consumer-interfacing food value chain that includes consumer packaged goods …
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Dealings on the Dark Web: An Examination of the Trust, Consumer Satisfaction, and the Efficacy of Interventions Against a Dark Web Cryptomarket
… effective countermeasures against these illicit online marketplaces. For law enforcement to be more effective against cryptomarkets, it is advised that an evidence-based approach be taken.
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Value-Added Tax (VAT) Implications within the South African environment arising from the classification of cryptocurrencies as financial services under the VAT Act
… of cryptocurrency merchants, including popular online marketplaces in South Africa that began to accept cryptocurrencies for goods or services, has also increased steadily. This rapid increase in the use of cryptocurrencies prompted the South African Revenue Services (SARS) to issue a media …
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Speech recognition with probabilistic transcriptions and end-to-end systems using deep learning
… transcribed by non-native speakers available in online marketplaces. End-to-End Large Vocabulary Automatic Speech Recognition: Recent advances in ASR have been mostly due to the advent of deep learning models. Such models have the ability to discover complex non-linear relationships between …
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Essays in Causal and Comparative Econometrics
… assets in a comparative manner. Users of online marketplaces or streaming services or review platforms may find relative ratings of products and services helpful. The general framework is also useful for multi-output model selection in a machine learning context. In addition, some of the …