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Congestion-dependent pricing and forward contracts for complementary segments of a communication network
Reiter, Miklós; Steinberg, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
forward contracts would be adopted by service providers. Service on the upstream segment is provided by a single Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071433
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Modelling the economic interaction of agents with diverse abilities to recognise equilibrium patterns
Piccione, Michele; Rubinstein, Ariel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
We model differences among agents in their ability to recognise temporal patterns of prices. Using the concept of DeBruijin sequences in two dynamic models of markets, we demonstrate the existence of equilibria in which prices fluctuate in a pattern that is independent of the fundamentals and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745837
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Internet cluster emergence
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071307
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Information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector: evidence from police departments
Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745994
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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Many cultural products have the same nonrival 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 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884530
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Cyber trust and crime prevention: a synthesis of the state-of-the-art science reviews
Collins, Brian S.; Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This report provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work in the sciences and social sciences that indicates the drivers, opportunities, threats, and barriers to the future evolution of cyberspace and the feasibility of crime prevention measures. It is based on 10 state-of-the-art...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884625
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Political economy, power and new media
Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928646
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom
Powell, Alison; Cooper, Alissa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746694
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Primary school children’s internet skills: a report on performance tests of operational, formal, information, and strategic internet skills
Van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.; Görzig, Anke; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126351