Some Internet stores manage to charge prices that are significantly higher than market averages, therefore, obtaining some sort of price premium. This paper is dedicated to building a model that can be used to explain and predict a typical price premium that an Internet store charges for a...

This paper analyzes seller choices and outcomes in approximately 700 Internet auctions of a relatively homogeneous good. The ‘Buy it Now’ option allows the seller to convert the auction into a posted price market. We use a structural model to control for the conduct of the auction as well as...

When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these...

In today´s digital 21st century, almost all businesses face intense competition from competitors all around the globe. There are no borders and business area for the all companies is almost unlimited. As the main supports of mentioned fact are globalization and ICT´s development. Influences...

Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics Center (ELI-NP) in Bucharest-Magurele is one of the pillars of the international research program ELI-NP, along with other two centers to be developed in Hungary and the Czech Republic. The investment for the development center in Magurele amounts...

The global consultancy industry is at the moment a cyclical industry, and in fact there is a direct dependence with global economic trends. Economic growth stimulates an increase in budgets for consulting economic agents, and on the other hand the recession makes global scale companies spend...

The paper submits a managerial “idea” whereby research activity may be rendered more efficient in its relation to economy, by the introduction of a concession system that should quickly establish relations between the research objects (as short and long-term perspective) so that the latter...