exists entirely on 40 computers in San Diego. Unlike many internet ventures, virtual worlds are making money - with annual … internet innovations, virtual worlds may soon become the primary venue for all online activity. …

A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as eBay, which employ a second price auction … with a fixed deadline. Much less late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as those run by Amazon, which … the different ending rules under controlled conditions, without the other differences between internet auction houses that …

This paper explores a unique new source of social valuation: a market for bodies. The internet hosts a number of large …

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 …

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …

avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …

In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit … second price internet auctions, in which very late bids have a positive probability of not being successfully submitted, and …