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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"online marketplace"”.
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Limiting bias from test-control interference in online marketplace experiments
… of bias due to test-control interference in online marketplace experiments. Using a simulation built on top of scraped Airbnb data, this paper considers the use of experiment designs and ATE estimators from the network interference literature for online marketplace experimentation. I first …
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Shout! : design and analysis of an online marketplace for retweets
… their social media presence. Shout! is an online marketplace for retweets we launched in 2016. With Shout!, users can set up micro-contracts with their friends to exchange future retweets. Shout! allows the user to trigger these retweets through their friends' accounts when they need them. …
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Luxury fashion online : a research of the online marketsplace for luxury fashion brands
… At the same time, the evolvement of the online marketplace has been substantial in the last decade, and it has taken Luxury Fashion brands quite some time to catch up with this evolution. There is an ongoing debate on weather or not Luxury should be sold online, at all, because of …
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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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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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Platform thinking and business of selling groceries online : assessing US and China based platforms
… USD sales generating industry by 2023¹. The online marketplace faces various challenges - a) low profit margins, b) changing consumer habits, c) the onerous task of managing customer experience on the site, and customer delivery experience in logistics, and d) massive scale of operations …
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study
… B2C firms in China’s e-commerce industry, where online retail markets have seen exponential growth over the last two decades. It shows that firms in Chinese online retail markets are facing heightened price competition due to reduced search costs for consumers and minimal differentiation in …
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Great Ideas (Don't) Sell Themselves: The Disclosure Paradox in Digital Startups Auctions
… Next, I investigate the disclosure paradox in an online marketplace for early-stage digital start-ups. Sellers can protect their unpatentable ideas through confidentiality agreements (NDAs), and they can have the exchange verify their advertising revenues. I provide evidence that these disclosure …
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Price incentives for online retailers using social media
In the era of Big Data, online retailers have access to a large amount of data about their customers. This data can include demographic information, shopping carts, transactions and browsing history. In the last decade, online retailers have been leveraging this data to build a personalized …
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Business plan of an online social commerce platform for the middle-aged and the elderly in China
This thesis is a business plan for creating an online social commerce platform, Second Life, for the middle-aged and the elderly in China. There is a huge and growing middle-aged and elderly population in China. A large portion of this population faces some social and economic issues, such as …
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Essays in industrial organization
… chapter I examine the role of reputation in an online marketplace that specializes in unreliable products. Using data gathered from video game resale platform G2A, I examine how buyers and sellers utilize the wide array of reputation information available. I find that buyers on this platform …
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Anomalous Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Consumer Review Websites
… the review system in Amazon, a leading online marketplace. We use verified purchases as a popularity index to evaluate models of popularity prediction. We find that it is indeed possible to analyze behaviors and develop methods that perform well for anomaly detection in the web, even in …
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The Economics of Public Safety
… the unintended consequences of centralized online marketplace on petty theft. Market centralization has been shown to improve market efficiency and stability. But, centralized markets have had a considerable impact on market exchanges that could result in non-violent criminal behavior. Using …
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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 on digital economy
… learn from their market experience in an online marketplace. Using consumers' six-month purchase history data in a unique empirical setting in one of China's largest e-commerce platforms, I find that consumers buy from cheaper sellers as they gain market experience. To investigate how …
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New revenue management problems for online platforms
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The Illicit Trade in Cultural Property Online: A Critical Analysis of Legal Frameworks, Gaps and Opportunities
… the illicit trade have focused on physical marketplaces and traditional actors, the digital shift has created new challenges for policymakers, law enforcement, and scholars. Digital marketplaces are characterised by anonymity, transnational reach, and speed of access, undermining the …