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Economic growth and the design of search engines
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The Internet plays a growing role in the economy. This paper extrapolates this trend and analyses a world where most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666414
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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788903
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Internet Cluster Emergence
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791414
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The Economics of Books
Canoy, Marcel; van der Ploeg, Frederick; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124150
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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124176
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Chicken and Egg: Competing Matchmakers
Caillaud, Bernard; Jullien, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
intermediation on the Internet by allowing registration and transaction prices, and multiple registration. When only registration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136667
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Digital Goods and the New Economy
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Digital goods are bit strings, sequences of 0s and 1s, that have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are non-rival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067419
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Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Many cultural products have the same non-rival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic – societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498130
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IPO Pricing in the dot-com Bubble
Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; Wilhelm Jr, William J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
preponderance of Internet and high-tech firms going public. Our results suggest that it was firm characteristics that were unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504679
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Advertising and the Distribution of Content
Weeds, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
distribution of content to pay TV and free-to-air broadcasters, and for internet distribution of content. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083559