online
Overview page. Subjects: Computing.
When a computer or a user is directly connected into a network and is capable of interacting with it, for example by querying the contents of a database.
Investigating the Chinese Online Underground Economy
in China and Cybersecurity
May 2015; p ublished online April 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: International Economics. 10922 words.
This chapter provides a detailed, empirical, structural investigation of the Chinese online underground economy. It estimates that the overall damage from the online underground economy has...
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Information in online labour markets
in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
July 2018; p ublished online July 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Microeconomics; International Trade; Demand and Supply of Labour; Economics. 8122 words.
Abstract
Online labour markets are virtual platforms that solve information problems to enable gains from trade in remote labour services. They make employers...
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Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring
in The Review of Economic Studies
April 2016; p ublished online September 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Trade; Wages, Compensation, and Labour Costs; Microeconomics; Technological Change; Research and Development. 26063 words.
Online markets for remote labour services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these...
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables: Insights from an Online Retailer
in The Review of Economic Studies
October 2015; p ublished online April 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; International Trade; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance. 24143 words.
I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per capita income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous...
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“Foreign Hostile Forces”
in China and Cybersecurity
May 2015; p ublished online April 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: International Economics. 12652 words.
This chapter examines China’s activity in and policies concerning cyberspace from a human rights-based perspective. The Chinese Communist Party considers the propagation or assertion of...
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Offshoring Higher Education
in The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment
May 2013; p ublished online August 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Economics; International Economics; Industry Studies. 8807 words.
Since the late 1980s, Australian higher-education providers have been venturing abroad to establish teaching partnerships and branch campuses. Along with the United States and the United...
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Implications of Incomplete Markets for International Economies
in The Review of Financial Studies
October 2018; p ublished online October 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Finance; Economics; International Financial Markets. 22667 words.
Abstract
We develop a restriction that precludes implausibly high reward-for-risk in incomplete international economies to consider a theoretical problem that...
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Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate
in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
May 2014; p ublished online March 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance; International Finance. 17466 words.
We use a novel data set of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior....
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Learning from History: Volatility and Financial Crises
in The Review of Financial Studies
July 2018; p ublished online April 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Finance; Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance; Economics; Financial Regulation; Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations. 15176 words.
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We study the effects of stock market volatility on risk-taking and financial crises by constructing a cross-country database spanning up to 211 years...
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