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Net Neutrality and Internet Fragmentation : The Role of Online Advertising
D'Annunzio, Anna - 2015
We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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Follow the Money : Online Piracy and Self-Regulation in the Advertising Industry
Batikas, Michail - 2018
In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...
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A Large-Scale Field Experiment to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising
Coviello, Lorenzo - 2017
Companies spend billions of dollars online for paid links to branded search terms. Measuring the effectiveness of this marketing spending is hard. Blake, Nosko and Tadelis (2015) ran an experiment with eBay, showing that when the company suspended paid search, most of the traffic still ended up...
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On the Applicability of Global Approximation Methods for Models with Jump Discontinuities in Policy Functions
Görtz, Christoph G. - 2014
We show that the standard Value Function Iteration (VFI) algorithm has difficulties approximating models with jump discontinuities in policy functions. We find that VFI fails to accurately identify the location and size of jump discontinuities while other methods - such as the Endogenous Grid...
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Characterizing the Sustainability Problem in an Exhaustible Resource Model
Mitra, Tapan; Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang; … - 2021
The Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model of capital accumulation and resource depletion poses the following sustainability problem: is it feasible to sustain indefinitely a level of consumption that is bounded away from zero? We provide a complete technological characterization of the...
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Regime Shifts and Uncertainty in Pollution Control
de Zeeuw, Aart; Zemel, Amos - 2021
We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in the damage coefficient. The model allows the full dynamic characterization of the optimal emission policies under uncertainty. The results, that imply prudent behavior due to...
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Value Function Iteration as a Solution Method for the Ramsey Model
Heer, Burkhard; Maussner, Alfred - 2021
Value function iteration is one of the standard tools for the solution of the Ramsey model. We compare six different ways of value function iteration with regard to speed and precision. We find that value function iteration with cubic spline interpolation between grid points dominates the other...
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Pricing Internet Traffic : Exclusion, Signalling and Screening
Jullien, Bruno - 2014
We consider a network that intermediates traffic between free content providers and consumers. While consumers do not know the traffic cost when deciding on consumption, a content provider knows his cost but may not control the consumption. We study how pricing consumers' and content providers'...
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Digital Piracy : Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2021
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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Shift Working and Trade in Labor Services with Time Zone Differences
Kikuchi, Toru - 2011
Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...
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