There have been at least two dominant forces at work in the realm of consumer contracting over the past several decades. One has been the rise and domination of the standard form contract, whereby merchants contract with consumers via the use of standardized, boilerplate terms and conditions...

We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...

This paper defines how an online educational program can be established for any university, and proposes how the university might leverage existing E-commerce products and services to create and operate an effective team learning environment. While implementing the online program, universities...

We build a model of reputation featuring a long-lived player (e.g. an online seller) and an infinite sequence of short-lived players (e.g. online buyers) which is consistent with three crucial idiosyncrasies of online reputation systems. First, players observe history of past actions upon...