This paper presents a mathematical model that analyzes the rational incentives involved in providing an informative evaluation for a knowledge management system when the evaluation has some consequences for the evaluator. The analysis is carried out in the context of the peer review process that...

While existing research on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services has increased our understanding in many respects, it has not yet supplied a comprehensive theoretical framework that explains business failures of P2P file-sharing network service models. We develop such an analytical model and...

This paper uses modified economic growth theory to compare and contrast two currently available ways of digital content distribution: the client-server model and the peer-to-peer (P2P) model. We describe a monopolistic pricing scheme for distributing digital content over P2P networks that...

Digital culture products are easily reproduced, easily distributed, and subject to boundless modification, extension and recombination. This sets the stage for the emergence of markets for co-production of cultural content. This paper studies two new market structures using two different...

We examine theoretically and experimentally how a society's grouping and stratification rules affect incentives and efficiency, and compare meritocratic and ascriptive grouping. We present a multi-level model of social production, and extend the usual single-group-level analysis of cooperation...

New forms of implicit consumer collaborations in online communities and social networks influence demand preferences as consumers (1) increasingly exchange information about products and providers (thus reducing information asymmetry) and (2) increasingly participate in the creation of cultural...

Several studies have shown that Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) auctions operate below their revenue and efficiency potential. From a theoretical perspective, most auction researchers agree that dynamic prices should improve the performance of these auctions, but it is still unclear whether dynamic...