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Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Frictions: Why Simple Digital Tools Outcompete “Built-In” Features

Bounded rationality explains why users choose simple tools like ROI calculators over complex built-in features....
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Incomplete Contracts and Complex Requirements: Contract Theory and the Persistence of Bespoke Website Design Services

Published on February 20, 2026

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Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Execution: Ricardo’s Law Applied to SaaS Development

Published on February 03, 2026

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Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Frictions: Why Simple Digital Tools Outcompete “Built-In” Features

Published on January 30, 2026

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Information Asymmetry and the Rise of Expat-Focused Real Estate Brokerages

Published on June 13, 2025

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How Purchasing Power Parity Explains the Boom in International Retirement Services

Published on May 15, 2025

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Creative Destruction and the Rise of Physical-Digital Advertising: How Innovation is Shifting Back to the Real World

Published on March 01, 2025

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Transaction Timing and Option Value: Real Options Theory in the Age of the EUR/USD Live Chart

Published on February 27, 2025

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Two-Sided Platforms and Rent Capture: Platform Economics in Digital Flower Delivery

Published on February 26, 2025

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Labor Market Institutions and Wage Compression: An Institutional Labor Economics Perspective on Software Developer Salaries Worldwide

Published on February 25, 2025

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Credence Goods and Post-Contract Verification: Reputation in the Market for Security Services

Published on February 25, 2025

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When you are shopping online, is the seller using psychological tricks to manipulate you into buying more?

Dark Patterns and the Economics of Consumer Mistakes

Almost all of us have experienced websites using various strategies and gimmicks to urge us to buy more stuff. This is known as the use of dark patterns to take advantage of human psychology. What are the economic ramification of widespread ecommerce use of dark patterns?...
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