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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

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Shop Around and You Pay More

Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw D.; Heravi, Saeed; … - CESifo - 2014

We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...

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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …

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Digital Piracy: Theory

Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - CESifo - 2010

This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...

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The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales: Cross-Section Evidence

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2004

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The Economics of Books

Canoy, Marcel F. M.; Ours, Jan C. van; Ploeg, Frederick … - CESifo - 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...

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An Economist’s Guide to Digital Music

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2004

In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...

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Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2003

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon – this can be...

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Regulation and Internet Access in Germany

Reutter, Michael - CESifo - 2001

We explain the recent events in the German market for online access using a model of a regulated monopoly renting phone lines to retailers. Retailers offer either a linear or a flat tariff to consumers. Consumer heterogeneity leads to adverse selectiion. We show why market entry for flatrate...

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Transparency and Tacit Collusion in a Differentiated Market

Schultz, Christian - CESifo - 2002

This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...

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