We study the impact of crossholdings on the efficiency of the standard auction formats. The ascending auction is not equivalent to the second-price auction. In a class of examples, the ascending auction is the only efficient standard auction format.

Vertical intra-industry trade accounts for a large share of trade between countries characterized by similar factor endowments. Moreover, it is observed even at a very disaggregated level of statistical classifications, suggesting that the traded products have similar factor intensities. This...

The study of Internet strategies has led to the publication of numerous research in Information Systems. It is most often through different perspectives adopted, to explain the results related to the adoption of the Internet within the company. Thus the approach of alignment used to explain the...

This work studies the seniority and the hierarchical level of product champions. The hierarchical level is positively correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most innovative projects. The seniority of champions...

We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990-2003. Drawing on police administrative records, we first document that the size of the immigrant population is positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with...

Information systems (IS) researchers are increasingly concerned by the paucity of research on how user adaptive strategies to information technology (IT) influence IT adoption and success (Beaudry et Pinsonneault 2005; Benbasat et Barki 2007). Drawing on the Information Systems Success Model (ISM)...