Click fraud is arguably the cyber-world's biggest scam. We examine the contexts, mechanisms and processes associated with the click fraud industry from the economics viewpoint. We investigate how the nature of the electronic channel affects strategic elements of click fraudsters and advertisers....

Although China has left India far behind in terms of most economic and technological indicators, there is one area China has failed to catch up: the commercial software industry. Analysts disagree on the magnitude and direction of future gap between the software industries of the two economies....

While the Latin American outsourcing and offshoring industry is largely dominated and overshadowed by Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, Colombia is emerging as a major challenger. Global and local companies are expanding their operations to mid-sized cities in the country. There is also some...

South Korea's new Songdo city provides a spectacular example of a smart city, which is developed as an aerotropolis, and a ubiquitous city (U-City). An intriguing aspect of the development of the new Songdo city is that supportive formal and informal institutions are the primary reason why the...

China is emerging as a global capital of m-commerce applications. China is the world's biggest mobile market in terms of subscriber base and the fastest growing in the history of telecommunications. Although China currently lacks advanced mobile applications compared to Europe, North America,...

Telecommunications networks of India and the People's Republic of China are among the largest in the world and have a number of areas for broadband use ripe for exploration. Broadband networks in some regions in these two economies are even more developed than in some parts of the industrialized...

The Chinese e-business industry has a number of unusual features. Institutional factors such as strong nationalism, the state's entrenchment in the economy, political cognitive and political normative factors, regulative uncertainty, professional associations' roles and importance of business...

Cybercrimes are becoming increasingly pervasive and sophisticated and have more severe economic impacts than most conventional crimes. Technology and skill intensiveness; a higher degree of globalization than conventional crimes; and the newness make cybercrimes structurally different. In this...