Recently third parties provide advertisement-removal services for digital contents, threatening the two-sided market business model of copyright holders. This paper suggests a modified version of the two-sided market model that allows a third party to actively de-embed advertisements from the...

We reexamine the •Information Technology (IT) productivity paradox• from the standpoints of theoretical basis, measurement issues and potential inefficiency in IT management. Two key objectives are: (i) to develop an integrated microeconomic framework for IT productivity and efficiency...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to identify whether the two‐sided nature of markets in both online and offline channels affects the versioning strategies of multi‐channel publishers in the presence of channel substitutability. Design/methodology/approach – Using analytical...

This study investigates the consequences of two alternative legal systems on e-commerce security in terms of the burden of proof. The paper analyzes corollaries of the two alternative e-commerce regulations by comparing the profits of e-commerce firms and their optimal levels of investment in...

This article analyzes how a property tax a¤ects a lease-sale strategy of a durable-good monopolist, and discusses its implication on social welfare with a two-period model. Our model derives some interesting results: (i) Concurrent leasing and selling can be the unique solution. (ii) The...

We analyzed an optimal enforcement system of monetary penalty and suspension order for social welfare maximization under a constraint of pollution control. We showed that when there is an asymmetrical information problem regarding firms’ pollution control efforts, both enforcement tools are...