International openness enhances social interactions between citizens of different countries or regions and vice versa. Social exchanges, in turn, increase trade flows between countries and influence markets and prices. We analyze the increased mobility that follows from openness between two...

This paper proposes a brand-level forecasting model that incorporates both first purchase diffusion and the replacement component in sales. The model consists of a two-stage procedure in which customers are presented with purchase occasions according to a diffusion process or replacement...

We propose a framework covering multi-country and multi-generation diffusion processes. Our model focuses on choice-based diffusion model and we extend the model to incorporate heterogeneity of country. We decompose the choice probability for generation into two components; the first one is...

This paper focuses on the process of coalition formation conditioning the common decision to adopt a shared good, which cannot be afforded by an average single consumer and whose use cannot be exhausted by any single consumer. An agent based model is developed to study the interplay between...

A large fraction of the total supply of paper is produced with technologies that have serious adverse consequences on the environment and cause significant health problems, such as cancer. This paper reports on how Internet adoption affects paper consumption. The study used country-level panel...