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In this paper we contend that – contrary to what argued by a vast part of the literature – computer software and, more in general, digital goods (i.e. symbolic strings on an electronic medium with some eco- nomic value) do not present the characteristics of a public good as they do not...
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In a monopoly setting where consumers cannot observe the quality of the product we show that free samples which are of a lower quality than the marketed digital goods are used together with high prices as signals for a superior quality if the number of informed consumers is small and if the...
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Electronic money has ushered in the cashless banking framework across different countries of the world and this is made possible by the advances in information technology and invention that began in Japan and later the West. However this new introduction into the various economies of the world...
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The article describes the work undertaken by the BIS in 1998 and earlier on "electronic money". (Annotated text, based on a presentation made at the Conference "on "Trends in Electronic Commerce", Hamburg, Germany, 8th June 1998", published at the time at vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de;...
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Developments in the information and communication technologies have been causing significant changes on the working mechanisms of the economy both at the national and international areas. Some of the developments can be indicated as follows: the dramatic increasing of capital movements amongst...
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This work exposes the nature of electronic money and analyses the development potential of the French experience Moneo. Our study shows the unsufficient capacity of the model itself to reach 500 million transactions, seen as a mature market.
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Developments in the information and communication technologies have been causing significant changes on the working mechanisms of the economy both at the national and international areas. Some of the developments can be indicated as follows: the dramatic increasing of capital movements amongst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617088
Given the remarkable growth of the cooperative field in our country, it is more and more necessary to study the tax … pressure that is beared by it. Until now the existing studies about the tax pressure are scarce, and more concretely in the … cooperative field, in spite of the importance of it in the global economy. In this work, rather than analyse the favorable tax of …
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By introducing the government's preference for tax revenues into an extended game with observable delay, this study … privatization. The results show that: (i) regardless of the government's preference for tax revenues, the government does not have … government's preference for tax revenues. …
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commodity-producing sectors, the services sector also experienced 'jobless' growth; (d) whether the imposition of services tax …
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