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On the Internet it is easy for someone to obtain a new identity. This introduces opportunities to misbehave without …
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The advent of online advertising has simultaneously created unprecedented opportunities for advertisers to target consumers and prompted privacy concerns among consumers and regulators. This paper estimates the financial impact of privacy policies on the online display ad industry by applying an...
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This study is trying to quantify the costs and benefits of Internet gambling as well as calculate the net effect for … the United Kingdom. Therefore, the research aim is to see whether Internet gambling should be a concern in the UK right …
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The impact of product variety on welfare has received little attention in the electronic commerce literature. The problem with product variety is that more variety does not necessarily imply higher welfare. This paper finds the conditions under which more variety, if caused by lower fixed costs,...
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digitalization of the economy and the consequent significant changes Internet use is bringing about in production and household …
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Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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The impact of product variety on welfare has received little attention in the electronic commerce literature. The problem with product variety is that more variety does not necessarily imply higher welfare. This paper finds the conditions under which more variety, if caused by lower fixed costs,...
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As people are spending more time online, it is important to evaluate the impact of Internet use on individual well …-being. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns (e.g. better job, higher productivity) that may increase life sa …-tisfaction. But the Internet might also have detrimental effects (addiction, social isolation, e.g.). This paper empirically examines …
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Internet service providers (ISPs) are experimenting with a business model that allows content providers (CPs) to … subsidize Internet access for end consumers. In this study, we develop a game-theoretical model to analyze the effects of this … will either allow both CPs to subsidize consumers' Internet access, or will allow only the more competitive CP to subsidize …
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