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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005
Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005
The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432539
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BRANDING REGIONAL IDENTITY AS A DRIVER FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Messely, Lies; Dessein, Joost; Lauwers, Ludwig H. - 2009
engaged in a process of “territorial competition” inan integrated world economy. The identity of the region can be used as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445911
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"I Speak, Therefore I Am:" Identity and Self-Construction as Motivation to Engage in Electronic Word of Mouth
Taylor, David George - 2010
another as part of identity construction. This dissertation attempts to answer the following research questions: 1. Do self …-concept and identity motivate consumers to engage in electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM)? 2. Is there a conceptual model to represent …, hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results suggest that self-concept and identity indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475030
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Online identifiers in everyday life
Gross, Benjamin M. - 2010
Identifiers are an essential component of online communication. Email addresses and instant messenger usernames are two of the most common online identifiers. This dissertation focuses on the ways that social, technical and policy factors affect individual's behavior with online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477729
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Receipt management- transaction history based trust establishment
Bhargav-Spantzel, Abhilasha; Woo, Jungha; Bertino, Elisa - 2007
In a history-based trust-management system, users and service providers use information about past transactions to make trust-based decisions concerningcurrent transactions. One category of such systems is represented by the reputation systems. However, despite the growing body of experience in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430549
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering … i pays to network j as a linear functionof the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In thecase of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435112
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing:Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2008
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435152
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ON THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF NETWORK SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES
Sen, Soumya - 2011
Understanding the relationship between technology and economics is fundamental to making judicious policy and design decisions. Many technologies that are successful in meeting their technical goals often fail to get adopted due to economic factors. This holds true even for networked systems,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438771
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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning
Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009
As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The … on separate networks increasingly more viable. So, which is the right option? The question is not unique to networks, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438861
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Light-Weight Overlay Path Selection in a Peer-to-Peer Environment
Fei, Teng; Tao, Shu; Gao, Lixin; Guérin, Roch A; … - 2006
Large-scale peer-to-peer systems span a wide range of Internet locations. Such diversity can be leveraged to build overlay “detours” to circumvent periods of poor performance on the default path. However, identifying which peers are “good” relay choices in support of such detours is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438893