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Publishers face an existential threat from a variety of news aggregators, such as free aggregators (e.g., Google News, Yahoo News), micropayment-facilitating aggregators (e.g., Blendle), and subscription-charging aggregators (e.g., Apple News+). The authors seek to theoretically examine whether publishers can collaborate and compete with the different types of news aggregators and, if so, what pricing and content-sharing strategies publishers should pursue. In the absence of a news aggregator, publishers sell their content as a composite publication; this intensifies interpublisher price competition and hurts publishers’ profits. A free aggregator, however, could help unbundle the articles of a publisher. Moreover, if publishers share articles on the same topic with a free aggregator, they can completely eliminate interpublisher competition and replace it with competition between the aggregator and the publishers, but they only partially eliminate interpublisher competition if they share articles on different topics with it. Yet, the free aggregator needs to bring sufficient additional traffic to the publishers to motivate them to share content and collaborate with it. Conversely, publishers will be willing to collaborate with a micropayment-facilitating aggregator even if it does not bring additional traffic to the publishers. This is because a micropayment-facilitating aggregator helps publishers unbundle their content and price discriminate. Lastly, publishers can be motivated to collaborate even with a subscription-charging aggregator that is powerful enough to dictate the terms of the revenue-sharing arrangement with the publishers. This is because the subscription-charging aggregator improves its profits without hurting the publishers’ surplus.
December 2023
Journal of Marketing Research
In a tax—public goods reciprocity framework between citizens and the state, managers view taxes as a payment to the government in exchange for public goods, and hence they adjust their willingness to pay taxes as public good quality changes. We show that corporate tax planning intensity increases with ground-level ozone pollution. Revisions in ozone pollution regulations cause counties that failed the revised and more stringent standards to reduce ozone pollution. Consequently, firms headquartered in these counties reduced corporate tax planning intensity relative to firms in other counties. The ozone-tax link varies in the predicted directions with public attention to pollution, potential welfare loss due to ozone, managers’ stakeholder orientation, taxpayers’ polluting status, political preferences, and civic norms. We also find consistent results for Superfund cleanups of hazardous waste sites. Our research sheds light on reciprocity as a potential mechanism influencing corporate tax compliance.
December 2023
Journal of Accounting Research
Using a long panel data set on Japanese firms, we find that firms make more precise forecasts and less autocorrelated forecast errors as they gain more experience. Then, we build a firm dynamics model where firms gradually learn about their demand by using a noisy signal. Using expectations data over time, we cleanly isolate the learning mechanism from other mechanisms and find that it accounts for 20%–40% of the overall decline in forecast errors over the life cycle. Productivity gains from removing information frictions range from 3% to 12%, with firm entry and exit playing prominent roles.
November 2023
Journal of Monetary Economics
Increased trading in dark venues around earnings announcements offers advantages to businesses and markets that can allay regulators’ concerns
July 2023
Accounting and Law
If the many functions of digital social media networks could be summed up in one word, it would likely be “sharing”. Through a myriad of apps and platforms, we share our thoughts, feelings, opinions, ideas, and more – with our friends and family, with our online social circles, with strangers, and even with companies.
July 2023
Innovation and Information Management
New research shows that traders can bypass capital controls by transporting goods across borders by truck to reap currency carry rewards. We look at how they do it and what the consequences are
July 2023
Economics
While computer languages may sound alien to economics, I aim to showcase that good programming skills are conducive not limited to economic research, it can also open up endless career possibilities for you in the business world.
31 Jan 2022
Economics
As a teacher, I will push myself to understand the expectations of local employers' and the market dynamics of Hong Kong.
18 Jan 2022
Finance
As a science person, I am impressed by our students' strong business acumen. But as a teacher, other than teaching them how to use quantitative tools to make scientific claims, I also hope that I can encourage them to continue to stay inquisitive about the world and apply their classroom knowledge for the betterment of the society.
5 Jan 2022
Marketing
美國聯邦儲備局(聯邦儲備銀行)11月2日議息會議後宣布,將基準利率維持在5.25厘至5.5厘不變,雖然符合市場預期,但水準仍處於22年來高點。 主席鮑威爾表示,對於下個月的會議尚未做出具體決定。
29 Nov 2023
Faculty
我們習慣認為自己的行為是理性、合乎邏輯,而且是經深思熟慮的,但現實上,我們的行為往往是「不經大腦」的,有許多盲點,甚至受到誤導和操縱而不自知。
22 Nov 2023
Faculty
碳排放權交易市場(以下簡稱「碳市場」)旨在利用市場機制,控制和減少溫室氣體排放,是實現「碳達峰、碳中和」目標(以下簡稱「雙碳目標」)的重要舉措。截至2023年7月16日,中國的全國碳排放權交易市場上線運行已滿兩周年,累計交易額超過110億元人民幣,碳排放配額累計成交量達2.399億噸。
15 Nov 2023
Faculty
美國聯邦儲備局(聯邦儲備銀行)11月2日議息會議後宣布,將基準利率維持在5.25厘至5.5厘不變,雖然符合市場預期,但水準仍處於22年來高點。 主席鮑威爾表示,對於下個月的會議尚未做出具體決定。
29 Nov 2023
Faculty
我們習慣認為自己的行為是理性、合乎邏輯,而且是經深思熟慮的,但現實上,我們的行為往往是「不經大腦」的,有許多盲點,甚至受到誤導和操縱而不自知。
22 Nov 2023
Economics
Chen Zhiwu, chair professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong, said both sides are preparing for further confrontations, adding: “The meeting shows that it is almost impossible for any effort to reverse the trend of hostility and the lack of trust between the two countries.
16 Nov 2023
Finance