Is Internet an ideal model for a self-regulated economy? It seems possible to decentrely organize and render enforceable a property right system on which interindividual negotiations could be based. Moreover, traditional State intervention is no longer operable since Internet users can by pass...

As an introduction to a series of contributions about Internet economics, the present paper has three goals. We firstly recall several basic facts and principles characterizing the morphology of the Internet, its operating system, its regulation procedures, as well as its rapid success which...

This paper presents a new methodology aimed at building institutional indicators. Up to now, all the available indicators have relied on an analysis of the supply of legal protection. Conversely we propose here a methodology based on the analysis of the demand for legal protection, as it is...