Studies in digital economy and platform research
Labor Economics
This analysis examines labor market effects of remote work adoption using administrative employment data from 14 countries between Q1 2020 and Q4 2025. We focus on three outcome variables: wage differ...
Cloud
Cloud spending across Asia-Pacific exceeded $200 billion in 2026, with India and China leading growth rates while Japan and Australia maintained the largest absolute spend....
AI Tools
We evaluated AI writing tools across five task categories — technical documentation, marketing copy, long-form editing, translation, and summarization — using standardized prompts and measuring output...
Business Skills
The majority of business writing — emails, memos, reports, proposals — fails at its core job. It does not clearly communicate what the writer needs the reader to understand or do. Even intelligent, ca...
Consumer Research
This study analyzes consumer behavior on mobile commerce platforms across six markets (India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Brazil, and Vietnam) using transaction data from 2.8 million users over twelve...
Lifestyle
Most of us are aware, intellectually, that spending hours on devices each day is not great for us. Yet the design of modern digital life makes healthier patterns genuinely difficult. It is worth think...
Fintech
Real-time payment systems expanded significantly in 2026. Brazil's PIX, India's UPI, and a growing list of similar national infrastructure projects processed record transaction volumes....
Lifestyle
For most of the previous century, where you lived was largely a function of where you worked. Remote work broke that coupling for knowledge workers, and the effects are still cascading through housing...
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