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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
equilibrium. The results apply to markets for consumer products, labor, intermediate goods, and (public) institutional services. …
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Buy it now: A hybrid market institution
Anderson, Steven; Friedman, Daniel; Milam, Garrett; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyzes seller choices and outcomes in approximately 700 Internet auctions of a relatively homogeneous good. The ‘Buy it Now’ option allows the seller to convert the auction into a posted price market. We use a structural model to control for the conduct of the auction as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835557
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Understanding the Internet's relevance to media ownership policy: a model of too many choices
Nagler, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Does the Internet provide a failsafe against media consolidation in the wake of an easing of media ownership rules? This paper posits a model of news outlet selection on the Internet in which consumers experience cognitive costs that increase with the number of options faced. Consistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836224
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The Impact of the Subgroup Structure on the Evolution of Networks: An Economic Model of Network Evolution
Kim, Kibae; Altmann, Jorn; Hwang, Junseok - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010
One of the most important properties of self-organized networks is their scale-free property. Prior research proved empirically and theoretically that scale-free networks emerge under the preferential attachment rule. However, a few empirical studies also show that empirical networks diverge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511397
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Two Risk-aware Resource Brokering Strategies in Grid Computing:Broker-driven vs. User-driven Methods
Hwang, Junseok; Park, Jihyoun; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010
Grid computing evolves toward an open computing environment, which is characterized by highly diversified resource providers and systems. As the control of each computing resource becomes difficult, the security of users¡¯ job is often threatened by various risks occurred at individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511398
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Grid Business Models for Brokers Executing SLA-Based Workflows
Quan, Dang Minh; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010
incentive structure for users to consume the HPCC services, and for brokers to perform efficiently. The business model also …
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A Marketplace and its Market Mechanism for Trading Commoditized Computing Resources
Altmann, Jorn; Courcoubetis, Costas; Risch, Marcel - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010
value-added support services. These value-added services help consumers to use the utility computing market more efficiently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511408
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The GridEcon Platform: A Business Scenario Testbed for Commercial Cloud Services
Risch, Marcel; Altmann, Jorn; Guo, Li; Fleming, Alan; … - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010
Within this paper, we present the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in … a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is … is needed. To identify the components of the GridEcon Platform, a number of economics-aware services and their …
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Invest Today or… Tomorrow? A Real Option Approach to Strategic Development in the French DSL Market
BENZONI, Laurent; GRESSER, Nicolas; VUONG, Cuong Hung - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2008) 70, pp. 89-100
This paper presents a descriptive case study of the new entrants' strategies on the French DSL market, applying the theoretical framework of real options. It is shown that two main strategies have been built around different analyses of the fixed incumbent operator's wholesale offer. The first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511702
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Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Markets
Manenti, Fabio Maria; Comino, Stefano - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2010
In this paper we present a theoretical model to study the characteristics and the commerciaI sustainability of dual licensing, an open source (OS) business strategy that has gained popularity among software vendors. With dual licensing, a firm releases the same software product under both a...
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