The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another …

and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate …: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from the constraints of geography (Cairncross, 1997) bringing …

Bidding in the last seconds or minutes of an auction is a common strategy in Internet auctions with fixed end …

Internet auctions, such as those on eBay, are known for multiple bidding and sniping. Buyers send bids in the closing … times at the same auction. We model Internet auction as a dynamic multi-unit auction. This let us explain the rationality of …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …