Recent rapid growth in electronic book sales has raised a critical question for publishers and book stores: do e-books cannibalize or increase print sales? In this article we compare the best-selling titles sold on Amazon.com in print or electronic (Kindle) formats during the period from...

This paper analyzes the impact of music file sharing on CD purchases. Traditionally, two arguments are opposed concerning the impact of music file sharing on CD sales. On the one hand, MP3 downloads only reduces sales of legitimate CDs (the competition effect). On the other hand, consumption of...

<alinea/> In this article, we compare online sales of books to sales in physical stores in France during the period March-August 2006. This is the first work that characterizes the distribution of book sales in France and that analyzes the dynamic interactions between physical and online sales of books...

This paper compares the best selling books, cd and dvd on the French Amazon website to those of the Amazon Marketplace which connects professionals and non professionals (individuals) interested in new and second-hand cultural goods. We show that the catalog of the best selling items on Amazon...

An Empirical Analysis of Price Dispersion on the Internet Online price dispersion has remained a puzzle for many years. In this article, we test the effects of a range of factors identified in the literature including vendor strategy, market structure, vendor heterogeneity and the time...

Using micro-level data coming from household surveys over 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, we analyse what are the determinants of mobile broadband adoption in developing economies. We provide empirical evidence on the presence of a learning effect stemming from mobile money use, which by providing a...

Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries' development. We highlight what the determinants of...

Large, generalist, technology firms—so-called "big-tech" firms—powerful in their primary market, routinely enter secondary markets consisting of specialist firms. Naturally, one might expect a specialist firm to be fiercely protective of its data as a way to maintain its market position in...