Macroscopic properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces

Online marketplaces are the main engines of legal and illegal e-commerce, yet their empirical properties are poorly understood due to the absence of large-scale data. We analyze two comprehensive datasets containing 245M transactions (16B USD) that took place on online marketplaces between 2010 and...

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Main Authors: Bracci, A, Boehnke, J, ElBahrawy, A, Perra, N, Teytelboym, A, Baronchelli, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2022