resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first … empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and …. However, social trust decreases with online interactions. Several interpretations of these findings are discussed. …

internet as a source of information derive relatively less life satisfaction from the same level of income. Using panel data …

On the Internet it is easy for someone to obtain a new identity. This introduces opportunities to misbehave without …

In this paper we study a large class of non-atomic games arising from interactions on the Internet, such as many users … evaluate the stability of such games on the Internet or in other settings in which players must learn over time. …

We address the problem of learning and implementation on the Internet. When agents play repeated games in distributed … environments like the Internet, they have very limited {\em a priori} information about the other players and the payoff matrix …

The Internet epitomizes globalisation. There are not many international treaties on Internet issues so far. For the … time being, governance of the Internet by law will thus basically have to be governance by national law. Most cyber … Internet has more and even more profound challenges to governance by law: the libertarian beliefs of many Internet activists …