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The Economic Costs of Structural Separation, Line of Business Restrictions, and Common Carrier Regulation of Online Platforms and Marketplaces: A Quantitative Evaluation
Dippon, Christian M.; Hoelle, Matthew D. - 2022
Online platforms and marketplaces are services that bring consumers and producers together via the internet by … providing consumers direct and instantaneous access to an extensive array of global goods and services and by enabling producers … attests to the societal benefits these services offer to consumers and producers alike. However, some US lawmakers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013420972
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Fair cost sharing in telecommunication industry, a virtuous circle
Jeanjean, François - 2023
This article studies the impact of the sharing of traffic costs between an Internet access provider and a content provider, both of which have a monopoly on their market. It shows that when the content provider charges consumers for content, cost sharing triggers a virtuous circle that...
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...
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Sickness Absence, Works Councils, and Personnel Problems. Evidence from German Individual and Linked Employer-Employee Data
Arnold, Daniel; Brändle, Tobias; Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
Using both household and linked-employer-employee data we study the effects of works councils on individual sickness absence rates and a subjective measure of personnel problems due to absenteeism in Germany. We find that the existence of a works council is positively correlated with the...
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Does the usage of TV streaming on the Internet bring about new functions to the public service broadcaster? : Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Kuroda, Toshifumi; Kido, Daido; Ichikawa, Yoshiharu - 2016
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On the Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption
Ohnemus, Jörg; Niebel, Thomas - 2016
computing services. …
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Estimating call externalities in mobile telephony
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Sobolewski, Maciej - 2016
Recent theoretical models of network competition with call externalities demonstrate strategic incentives of incumbent providers to reduce receiver benefits in rival network by excessive off-net pricing. Such anti-competitive pricing practices have a potentially damaging impact on financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577424
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Economic and social motives of using geography-related information and communication technologies: a Japanese-Hungarian comparative study
Jakobi, Akos - 2012
geographical content. Recently, significant growth is shown by certain circles of industries and services attached to information … affect of the technological change many examples can be cited from location aware smartphones to map services of the Internet …-based web mapping, Google Earth and other Digital Earth solutions, GPS-related activities, location based services or other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340830
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Complex regional assessment possibilities of competitiveness of the information economy and society in Hungary: from regional statistics to regional policy
Jakobi, Akos - 2012
Since ICT factors got growing importance in shaping social and economic differences, the determination of competitiveness in the information economy and society became needful in understanding modern regional disparities of Hungary. To evaluate recent inequalities caused by the factors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340908
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The offline landscape of an online social network: distance and size shaping community spread and activity
Lengyel, Balazs; Jakobi, Akos - 2012
This initial paper of our interest on geography of online social network is based on a literature in which geographers reformulated major concepts and hypotheses in the ‘90ies due to revolutionary development of internet (Cairncross, 1997). Cyberspace quickly became central issue in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340929