Social broadcasting networks such as Twitter in the U.S. and Weibo in China are transforming the way online word-of-mouth (WOM) is disseminated and consumed in the digital age. We investigate whether and how Twitter WOM affects movie sales by estimating a dynamic panel data model using publicly...

This paper presents a theory for price-setting in public utilities, of which public goods will be considered a special case. Both public goods and utilities are cases of joint supplies and costs, where a good is to be supplied to and paid for by several users, and any increase in the quantity of...

Distributed processing has been motivated by many objectives. Among these are a desire to share resources, reduce communications costs (as compared to a centralized processing scheme), increase performance and decrease response time by partitioning tasks and achieve higher system availability...