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Transparency and tacit collusion in a differentiated market
Schultz, Christian - 2002
This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...
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Populism and polarization in social media without fake news : the vicious circle of biases, beliefs and network homophily
Hakobyana, Zaruhi; Koulovatianos, Christos - 2019
decreasing trust in science. Even without fake news, combining the internet's ease of forming networks with (a) individual biases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040625
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Populism and polarization in social media without fake news: the vicious circle of iases, beliefs and network homophily
Hakobyan, Zaruhi; Koulovatianos, Christos - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197186
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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158085
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Voting advice applications and elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino L.; Schelker, Mark; … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421257
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Populism and polarization in social media without fake news : the vicious circle of biases, beliefs and network homophily?
Hakobyan, Zaruhi; Koulovatianos, Christos - 2020
suggest a search and matching mechanism behind network formation of friends, claiming that the internet has made search and … matching less costly and more intensive. According to our simulations, just combining the internet's ease of forming networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520365
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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic models to support the hypothesis that the internet, inter alia, enables … evidence to show that the growth landscape has indeed shifted decisively in favor of developing countries in the Internet Age … gains from internet adoption in comparison to the average advanced country. The paper discusses policy implications from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251917
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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003
Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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La tesi di laurea in economia
Tattara, Giuseppe - 1996
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