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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU 漫游法规对欧盟移动运营商收入和价格的影响
Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3904537
L. Grzybowski, Ángela Muñoz-Acevedo
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator’s revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during the latest phase of the regulation.
我们实证评估了欧盟漫游法规对移动运营商每用户平均收入(ARPU)和零售价格的影响。通过差异中的差异方法、享乐价格回归以及详细的运营商和计划层面数据,我们发现,监管降低了移动运营商的每用户收入,而在监管的最新阶段,它对资费没有影响。
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引用次数: 2
Selling Cross-Border in Online Markets: The Impact of the Ban on Geoblocking Strategies 网络市场跨境销售:禁令对地理封锁策略的影响
Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3731987
M. Bourreau, Fabio M. Manenti
We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking restrictions. We show that geoblocking results in a “puppy dog” strategy (Fudenberg and Tirole, 1984) for firms, which allows them to soften competition, but that it comes at the cost of lower demand. In the short term, a ban on geoblocking leads to lower prices, both offline and online. However, in the longer term, when firms can invest in increasing the demand from online shoppers, the ban may have adverse effects on investment and social welfare. We extend our analysis to account for price discrimination and investigate the role of shipping costs.
我们开发了一种战略地理封锁模型,即位于不同国家的两家竞争多渠道零售商可以决定阻止外国消费者进入他们的在线商店。我们描述了当企业单方面决定是否引入地理封锁限制时的均衡。我们表明,地理封锁导致了企业的“小狗”战略(Fudenberg and Tirole, 1984),这使它们能够软化竞争,但其代价是需求降低。在短期内,禁止地理屏蔽会降低线下和线上的价格。然而,从长远来看,当企业可以投资增加网上购物者的需求时,这项禁令可能会对投资和社会福利产生不利影响。我们将分析扩展到考虑价格歧视,并调查运输成本的作用。
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引用次数: 0
Does Telecommuting Reduce Commuting Emissions? 远程办公能减少通勤排放吗?
Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3945279
Waldemar Marz, Suphi Şen
The long-term trend toward more work from home due to digitization has found a strong new driver, the Covid-19 pandemic. The profound change in urban mobility patterns supports the often-held view that reducing the number of commuting trips can lower carbon emissions to a certain degree. We investigate this optimistic view from a long-run perspective in a monocentric urban model with household-level vehicle choice based on fuel efficiency. In the medium run, fewer trips lead to the choice of less fuel-efficient vehicles. In addition, with lower annual driving costs to the city center, households change their location in the long run toward longer commuting trips, but cheaper housing, implying an adjustment in the real-estate market. These changes in vehicle choice and the urban form largely eliminate the initial environmental benefits. Binding fuel economy standards completely prevent the medium-run drop in fuel efficiency, but slightly exacerbate the long-term increase in commuting trip length.
数字化导致更多在家工作的长期趋势已经找到了一个强大的新推动力,那就是新冠肺炎大流行。城市交通模式的深刻变化支持了人们经常持有的观点,即减少通勤次数可以在一定程度上降低碳排放。我们从一个单中心城市模型的长期角度考察了这种乐观观点,该模型具有基于燃油效率的家庭级车辆选择。从中期来看,出行次数减少会导致人们选择燃油效率较低的车辆。此外,由于前往市中心的年驾车成本较低,从长远来看,家庭会改变居住地,选择通勤路程更长、但房价更便宜的住房,这意味着房地产市场将出现调整。这些车辆选择和城市形态的变化在很大程度上消除了最初的环境效益。具有约束力的燃油经济性标准完全防止了中期燃油效率的下降,但略微加剧了长期通勤行程长度的增加。
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引用次数: 2
The Impact of the German 'DEAL' on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market 德国“DEAL”对学术出版市场竞争的影响
Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3815451
Justus Haucap, Nima Moshgbar, W. Schmal
The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and apply a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact on eligible scientists’ choice of publication outlet. We find that even in the short period following the conclusion of these DEAL agreements, publication patterns in the field of chemistry have changed, as eligible researchers have increased their publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge: First, academic libraries may be, at least in the long run, left with fewer funds and incentives to subscribe to non-DEAL journals published by smaller publishers or to fund open access publications in these journals. Secondly, eligible authors may prefer to publish in journals included in the DEAL agreements, thereby giving DEAL journals a competitive advantage over non-DEAL journals in attracting good papers. Given the two-sided market nature of the academic journal market, these effects may both further spur the concentration process in this market.
德国的DEAL协议一方是德国的大学和研究机构,另一方是施普林格Nature和Wiley,为位于德国的研究人员提供了方便的开放获取出版。我们使用了2016年至2020年所有化学出版物的数据集,并应用差异中的差异方法来估计对合格科学家选择出版渠道的影响。我们发现,即使在这些DEAL协议签订后的短时间内,化学领域的发表模式也发生了变化,因为符合条件的研究人员增加了在Wiley和b施普林格Nature期刊上的发表,而牺牲了其他期刊的数量。由此产生了两个相关的竞争问题:首先,至少从长远来看,学术图书馆订阅小出版商出版的非deal期刊或资助这些期刊上的开放获取出版物的资金和动力可能会减少。其次,符合条件的作者可能更愿意在DEAL协议中包含的期刊上发表文章,从而使DEAL期刊在吸引优秀论文方面比非DEAL期刊具有竞争优势。鉴于学术期刊市场的双边市场性质,这些影响都可能进一步刺激该市场的集中过程。
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引用次数: 15
A Bias-Corrected CD Test for Error Cross-Sectional Dependence in Panel Data Models with Latent Factors 具有潜在因素的面板数据模型中误差横截面相关性的偏差校正CD检验
Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3904536
M. Pesaran, Yimeng Xie
In a recent paper Juodis and Reese (2021) (JR) show that the application of the CD test proposed by Pesaran (2004) to residuals from panels with latent factors results in over-rejection and propose a randomized test statistic to correct for over-rejection, and add a screening component to achieve power. This paper considers the same problem but from a different perspective and shows that the standard CD test remains valid if the latent factors are weak, and proposes a simple bias-corrected CD test, labelled CD*, which is shown to be asymptotically normal, irrespective of whether the latent factors are weak or strong. This result is shown to hold for pure latent factor models as well as for panel regressions with latent factors. Small sample properties of the CD* test are investigated by Monte Carlo experiments and are shown to have the correct size and satisfactory power for both Gaussian and non-Gaussian errors. In contrast, it is found that JR's test tends to over-reject in the case of panels with non-Gaussian errors, and have low power against spatial network alternatives. The use of the CD* test is illustrated with two empirical applications from the literature.
在最近的一篇论文中,Juodis和Reese (2021) (JR)表明,将Pesaran(2004)提出的CD检验应用于具有潜在因素的面板的残差会导致过度排斥,并提出了随机检验统计量来纠正过度排斥,并添加筛选组件以实现功率。本文从不同的角度考虑了同样的问题,并表明如果潜在因素较弱,标准CD检验仍然有效,并提出了一个简单的偏差校正CD检验,标记为CD*,无论潜在因素是弱还是强,它都证明是渐近正态的。这一结果被证明适用于纯潜在因素模型以及具有潜在因素的面板回归。通过蒙特卡罗实验研究了CD*测试的小样本性质,并证明了它对于高斯和非高斯误差都具有正确的大小和令人满意的功率。相比之下,发现JR的测试在具有非高斯误差的面板的情况下倾向于过度拒绝,并且对空间网络替代品具有低功耗。CD*测试的使用说明了两个实证应用从文献。
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引用次数: 11
Using Predictive Analytics to Track Students: Evidence from a Seven-College Experiment 使用预测分析来跟踪学生:来自七所大学实验的证据
Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1257/rct.7827
Peter Bergman, E. Kopko, Julio Rodriguez
Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face misaligned curricula and must pay tuition for remedial courses that do not bear credits toward graduation. We develop an alternative system to place students that uses predictive analytics to combine multiple measures into a placement instrument. Compared to colleges’ existing placement tests, the algorithm is more predictive of future performance. We then conduct an experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm’s effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses increased substantially without reducing pass rates. Adjusting for multiple testing, algorithmic placement generally, though not always, narrowed gaps in college placement rates and remedial course taking across demographic groups. A detailed cost analysis shows that the algorithmic placement system is socially efficient: it saves costs for students while increasing college credits earned, which more than offsets increased costs for colleges. Costs could be reduced with improved data digitization as opposed to entering data by hand.
跟踪在美国教育中很普遍。仅在高等教育领域,至少71%的大学使用考试来跟踪学生。然而,有人担心,最常用的大学分班考试缺乏有效性和可靠性,不必要地将来自代表性不足群体的学生送入补习班。虽然最近的研究表明,跟踪可以对学生的学习产生积极影响,但不准确的位置也会产生后果:学生们面临着不一致的课程,必须为不计入毕业学分的补习课程支付学费。我们开发了一个替代系统来安置学生,该系统使用预测分析将多个措施结合到一个安置工具中。与大学现有的分班考试相比,该算法更能预测未来的表现。然后,我们在七所大学进行了一项实验,以评估该算法对学生的影响。大学水平课程的录取率在不降低通过率的情况下大幅提高。针对多重测试进行调整后,算法分班总体上(尽管并非总是如此)缩小了不同人口群体在大学分班率和补习课程上的差距。详细的成本分析表明,算法分班系统具有社会效率:它为学生节省了成本,同时增加了获得的大学学分,这远远抵消了大学增加的成本。与手工输入数据相比,改进数据数字化可以降低成本。
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引用次数: 4
Reputation in the Long-Run 长期的声誉
Pub Date : 2017-11-28 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3103688
Apostolos Filippas, J. Horton, Joseph M. Golden
Feedback scores in an online marketplace have risen sharply over time, leading to substantial top-censoring. Some of the increase is explained by more satisfied raters, but at least 35-45% is attributable to raters applying lower standards. We show that this “reputation inflation” is the equilibrium outcome of a model in which (a) inferences made by future trading partners determine what constitutes “bad” feedback and (b) giving “bad” feedback is costly to raters. The introduction of a new feedback system confirms our model predictions: raters were candid when feedback was private, but when feedback suddenly became public, reputations began inflating.
随着时间的推移,在线市场的反馈分数急剧上升,导致了大量的顶部审查。增加的部分原因是评分者更满意,但至少有35-45%的原因是评分者采用了较低的标准。我们表明,这种“声誉膨胀”是一个模型的均衡结果,在这个模型中(a)未来贸易伙伴的推断决定了什么是“坏”反馈,(b)给予“坏”反馈对评分者来说代价高昂。新反馈系统的引入证实了我们的模型预测:当反馈是私下的时候,评分者是坦诚的,但当反馈突然公开时,评分者的声誉开始膨胀。
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引用次数: 16
Does Envelopment Through Data Advantage Call for New Regulation? 数据优势带来的包络效应需要新的监管吗?
Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3805458
Gregor Langus, V. Lipatov
Envelopment is an effective form of market entry that facilitates competition among platforms. Nevertheless, many commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because of that concern. These calls for regulation are not supported by robust formal analysis or comprehensive empirical evidence. We analyze a visible recent contribution by Condorelli and Padilla (2020a,b) and explain why the model that they put forward is not ripe for policy advice in relation to concerns with envelopment.
包络是一种有效的市场进入形式,促进了平台之间的竞争。然而,许多评论人士关注的是包络的反竞争潜力,出于这种担忧,一些人主张对平台进行监管。这些要求监管的呼声没有得到有力的形式分析或全面的经验证据的支持。我们分析了Condorelli和Padilla (2020a,b)最近的一项显著贡献,并解释了为什么他们提出的模型在涉及包络的政策建议方面还不成熟。
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引用次数: 2
Did COVID-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy COVID-19是否影响了家庭内部的分工?来自意大利两波大流行的证据
Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3863828
D. Boca, Noemi Oggero, P. Profeta, Mariachristina Rossi
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families' lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women, particularly in countries with a traditionally uneven division of household labor. Yet the dramatic increase in remote work from home since the pandemic also has the potential to increase paternal involvement in family life and thus to redress persistent domestic gender role inequalities. This effect depends on the working arrangements of each partner, whether working remotely, working at their usual workplace or ceasing work altogether. We examine the role of working arrangements during the pandemic on the traditional division of household labor in Italy using survey data from interviews with a representative sample of working women conducted during the two waves of COVID-19 (April and November 2020). Our data show that the gender gap in household care related activities was widest during the first wave of the pandemic, and although it was less pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and assisting their children with distance learning did not depend on their partners' working arrangements. Conversely, men spent fewer hours helping with the housework and distance learning when their partners were at home. It is interesting, however, that although men who worked remotely or not at all did devote more time to domestic chores and child care, the increased time they spent at home did not seem to lead to a reallocation of couples' roles in housework and child care. Finally, we find that working arrangements are linked to women's feelings of uncertainty, with heterogeneous effects by level of education.
2019冠状病毒病大流行对家庭生活产生了巨大影响,世界各地的父母都在努力满足家务、照顾孩子和在家上学等日益增加的需求。妇女承担了许多额外的负担,特别是在传统上家庭劳动分工不均衡的国家。然而,自大流行病以来,在家远程工作的急剧增加也有可能增加父亲对家庭生活的参与,从而纠正长期存在的家庭性别角色不平等。这种影响取决于每个伴侣的工作安排,是远程工作,在他们通常的工作场所工作还是完全停止工作。我们利用两波COVID-19(2020年4月和11月)期间对具有代表性的职业妇女样本进行的访谈调查数据,研究了大流行期间工作安排对意大利传统家庭劳动分工的作用。我们的数据显示,在第一波大流行期间,家庭护理相关活动中的性别差距最大,尽管在第二波大流行期间不那么明显,但仍高于covid -19前。妇女花在家务、照顾孩子和帮助孩子远程学习上的时间并不取决于其伴侣的工作安排。相反,当伴侣在家时,男性帮忙做家务和远程学习的时间更少。然而,有趣的是,尽管远程工作或根本不工作的男性确实花了更多的时间做家务和照顾孩子,但他们花在家里的时间的增加似乎并没有导致夫妻在家务和照顾孩子方面角色的重新分配。最后,我们发现工作安排与女性的不确定感有关,受教育程度的不同会产生不同的影响。
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引用次数: 18
Cloud Computing and Firm Growth 云计算与企业成长
Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3618829
Timothy DeStefano, R. Kneller, Jon Timmis
The arrival of the cloud has enabled a shift in the nature of ICT use, from investment in sunk capital to a pay-on-demand service that allows firms to rapidly scale up. This paper uses new firm-level data to examine the impact of cloud on firm growth in the UK, using zipcode-level instruments of the timing of high-speed fibre availability and expected speeds. We find cloud leads to the growth of young firms in terms of employment and productivity, but they become more concentrated in fewer plants. For older firms we find no scale or productivity growth, but instead disperse activity by closing plants and moving employment further from the headquarters. In addition, the plants that close tend to be those without access to fibre broadband.
云计算的到来使得信息通信技术使用的本质发生了转变,从对沉没资本的投资转变为一种按需付费的服务,使公司能够迅速扩大规模。本文使用新的公司层面的数据来检查云对英国公司增长的影响,使用高速光纤可用性和预期速度的邮编级工具。我们发现云导致年轻公司在就业和生产率方面的增长,但它们变得更集中在更少的工厂。对于老公司,我们没有发现规模或生产率的增长,而是通过关闭工厂和将就业岗位从总部转移到更远的地方来分散活动。此外,关闭的工厂往往是那些无法接入光纤宽带的工厂。
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引用次数: 23
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