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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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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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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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This paper surveys models of markets in which some consumers are "savvy" while others are not. We discuss when the presence of savvy consumers improves the deals available to non-savvy consumers in the market (the case of search externalities), and when the non-savvy fund generous deals for...
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In January 2011, a price regulation was established in the Austrian gasoline market which prohibits firms from raising their prices more than once per day. Similar restrictions have been discussed in New York State and Germany. Despite their intuitive appeal, this article argues that...
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This paper surveys models of markets in which only some consumers are "savvy". I discuss when the presence of savvy consumers improves the deals available to all consumers in the market (the case of search externalities), and when the non-savvy fund generous deals for all consumers (ripoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166054
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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