The global geography of digital platforms: towards platforms international locational determinants

Victo José da Silva Neto, Tulio Chiarini, Leonardo Ribeiro and Igor Tupy
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Victo José da Silva Neto: Radboud University
Leonardo Ribeiro: Cedeplar/UFMG
Igor Tupy: UFV

No 650, Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG from Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract: Digital platforms have positioned themselves at the center of global flows of capital, knowledge, and work. Their ability to influence and organize these flows makes it imperative to understand the locational decisions of platform companies. This paper explores new evidence on the digital platform economy geography. Our objective is threefold. First, we propose a novel methodology using data science and artificial intelligence tools to identify platform companies. Second, with a set of over three thousand companies, we introduce worldwide maps where it is possible to see the countries and cities that host platform companies. Third, we present platform companies’ locational choice using econometric models.While we observe a geographic concentration of platform companies in the U.S. and China, we also see that digital platform companies are spreading to all geographical directions, including tax havens, reinforcing the hypothesis that "platforming" is a worldwide phenomenon.

Keywords: Platformization; Platform capitalism; Natural language processing; Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial regression model; Orbis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F01 L86 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2022-11
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