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Telecommunication and Information Society Day May 2009. It discusses the issues faced by children while they surf online, including … to the internet for children. …
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Governments justify support of Internet diffusion on two grounds: (1) to overcome a persistent digital divide in … broadband availability and (2) to facilitate online activities that are socially or economically desirable. This paper assesses … how broadband adoption changes individuals’ usage of online activities. Broadband adoption increases individuals …
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This paper presents a measure of vacancy posting that captures the behavior of total --print and online-- help …-wanted advertising. By modeling the share of online job advertising as the diffusion of a new technology --online job posting and job … search-- I can combine information on both print and online help-wanted advertising. I use this consistent measure of vacancy …
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in the online retail environment. Perceptions of financial risk were found to be negatively associated with service …. While the drivers of service quality and relationship-marketing quality have been examined extensively in the online setting … guidance to researchers interested in the affects of perceived risk (particularly financial risk) on new online shoppers …
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The paper argues that when a consumer searches for a lower price, a satisficing decision procedure equalizes marginal costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with regard to the equality of marginal values of search....
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Inflation is currently low and falling in the OECD area. A side effect of these facts is that they made harder the task of price index compilers. First of all, researchers and analysts are moving their attention from aggregate price dynamics to price differentials (among products, markets,...
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The aim of this work is to establish the personal income distribution from the elementary constituents of a free market; products of a representative good and agents forming the economic network. The economy is treated as a self-organized system. Based on the idea that the dynamics of an economy...
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Firms simultaneously set prices in a homogeneous-product market where uninformed consumers search for price information. Some uninformed consumers are local searchers who visit only one seller, possibly due to high search costs or bounded rationality; whereas others search sequentially with an...
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This paper develops a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in order to explain the basic facts of housing markets, most of all the variance in house prices. Price dispersion is basically due to both the ex-ante heterogeneity of the parties and the search costs of buyers and sellers. In fact,...
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In a market where sellers are heterogeneous with respect of the quality of their good and are more informed than buyers, high quality sellers' chances to trade might depend on their ability to inform buyers about the quality of the goods they offer. We study how the strength of competition among...
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