Eaton, B. Curtis; MacDonald, Ian A.; Meriluoto, Laura - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 46 (2013) 3, pp. 881-899
We analyze the success of filtering as a solution to the spam problem when used alone or concurrently with sender pricing, receiver pricing, or both. We find that filtering alone may exacerbate the spam problem in terms of both the total number of spam message sent and the expected number of...