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This paper analyses the equilibrium effects of individual information filters. Information is modelled as advertisements which are distributed across a population of consumers with heterogeneous preferences. An advertisement that provides knowledge about a product with little or no utility for a...
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superior firm enters the agreement only if it results in a large enough increase in demand for advertising space at the … share, the agreement is beneficial for the inferior firm, as the later firm's additional revenues from a higher advertising …
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Due to the continuous growing of information exchange in the Internet, commercial web sites have started to include online tools to allow consumer interaction in them. Thus, when visiting these commercial web sites, consumers may consider not only e-retailer information (marketing communication)...
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To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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, prices are zero - "free." On the other side of the market, Facebook's and Google's revenues are derived from advertising … market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …
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We analyze a market where firms compete in a conventional and an electronicretail channel. Consumers easily compare prices online, but some incur purchaseuncertainties on the online channel. We investigate the market shares of the two retailchannels and the prices that are charged. We find that...
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We analyze the incentives for incumbent bricks-and-mortar firms and newentrants to start an online retail channel in a differentiated goods market. Tothis end we set up a two-stage model where firms first decide whether or notto build the infrastructure necessary to start an online retail...
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Dynamic development of the Internet and electronic devices favours also its use in the marketing activity of enterprises what manifests itself in dynamic development of e-commerce or the use of the Internet for communication. Aim of this article is to evaluate the possibility of using Internet...
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Advances in computer technology present many opportunities as well as dangers to individuals, organizations and the society as a whole. Many social values are challenged by the technology and its application to the work and private life of many individuals. New ethical issues have arisen that...
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