Jump to navigation
TSE Building, August 25–26, 2022
Ulrich Laitenberger (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
July 26, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study seller and product recommendations of the hybrid e-commerce platform Amazon. Using web-scraped data, we find that Amazon makes the visibility of offers of third-party suppliers in the "buybox" dependent on prices on competing marketplaces like Walmart and eBay. Amazon’s own offers are...
Leonardo Madio (University of Padova)
July 12, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study a platform’s incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. The impact of platform liability on innovation can be either positive or negative and critically depends on the...
Sevilla, July 8 to July 8, 2022
TSE, July 7–8, 2022, room Auditorium 6
Germain Gaudin (University of Freiburg)
TSE & IAST, July 4, 2022, 12:30–13:30, Auditorium A4
We study the relationship between market power and quality supply. We develop a flexible approach to imperfect competition in product qualities and prices (or quantities), which encompasses several existing models. We uncover sucient statistics, including our quality parameter, which can be...
July 4, 08:00 to July 5, 2022, 18:00, room Auditorium 3
Michael Hertzel
Toulouse, July 1, 2022, 11:00–12:30, room Auditorium 4
We show that the social capital embedded in employees’ networks contributes to firm performance. Using novel, individual-level network data, we measure a firm’s social capital derived from employees’ connections with external stakeholders. Our directed network data allow for differentiating those...
Online, June 30 to June 30, 2022
Andrey Fradkin (Boston University)
June 28, 2022, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Online reviews are typically written by volunteers and, consequently, accurate information about seller quality may be underprovided. We study the extent of this under-provision using a randomized experiment conducted by Airbnb. In the treatment, buyers are offered a coupon to review listings that...
