Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...

The paper at hand illustrates the history and the current state of the media economics tradition in German-speaking countries. After describing early, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in media economics the author will discuss boundaries of the market provision of media goods (“market...

Mit der CD-ROM WISO II sind die Datenbanken der Bibliotheken bzw. Informationszentren von drei großen deutschen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten,dem HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Hamburg, dem Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel und dem ifo Institut für...

This paper investigates a model featuring a monopolist seller and a buyer with an uncertain valuation for the seller’s product. The seller chooses an information system which allows the buyer to receive a private signal, potentially correlated with her valuation. No restrictions are imposed on...

The goal of the article is theoretical substantiation of the process of formation of the mechanism of state regulation of the fuel and energy complex (FEC) of a Ukrainian region. The article studies specific features of formation of the mechanism of state regulation of the FEC of Ukraine and...

The previous literature contends inter alia that states may welcome the participation of civil society groups in global environmental governance due to their provision of information. The following research takes this argument as a starting point for a closer examination of its validity within...

In the wake of the financial crisis, several countries are to ban commission payments to improve the quality of financial advice. This paper investigates the potential impact of commission bans on the source and quality of financial advice. To this end, we extend Inderst and Ottaviani's (2012)...

In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...

This paper considers an agency model in which the agent can update the principal’s belief before the contract is offered. We identify that the agent who has a bad potential to perform the task has a small chance to receive information rent, but if he receives it, he receives a large amount....

Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...