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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Economics of Information"”.
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Essays on the Economics of Information
The thesis is composed of three chapters discussing the economics of information in markets and contracts. The first chapter paper proposes a theoretical framework that combines information design and mechanism design to analyze markets for mediation services between an informed and an uninformed …
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Three essays in the economics of information technology
The first chapter is to investigate the impact of a free on-line repository of research articles on the diffusion of their ideas measured by the citation counts. The key questions that this chapter answers are as following: 1) does a free on-line repository of research articles increase the …
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Three Essays on the Law and Economics of Information Technology Security
… cybercrimes are addressed through a combination of private and public measures, as well as study the public goods and externalities aspects of Internet security. We find that the socially-optimal level of security is achieved by equalizing the marginal-benefit-to-marginal-cost ratios of the …
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The influence of affect on product evaluations and search behavior: an integration of affect and the economics of information
This research challenges the cognitive view of consumers as goal-driven, rational, problem-solving, information processors. Consumer’s feeling states, or affective responses, are viewed as beneficial to consumers in that they provide information for the decision-making process. Two separate …
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Dynamic Programming Model of the Corn Production Decision Process With Stochastic Climate Forecasts (Information, Illinois)
… which have surfaced recently in the Agricultural Economics literature: (1) the need to model crop production in a dynamic framework, and (2) the need for a better understanding of the economics of information. To address these issues a stochastic dynamic programming model of a single year's corn …
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Essays on information technology, intangible capital, and the economics of artificial intelligence
… dissertation contains four essays concerning the economics of information technology, intangible capital, and artificial intelligence. In the first essay, "Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence" I describe how firms can appropriate some …
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Does Intentions-based mCommerce business models provide for a unique and differentiated value proposition?
Information is an asset! Within the eEconomy, information is often referred to as the currency of the Internet. With the uptake of the Internet many companies have been established and emerged, not along product lines, but throu gh the collation and distribution of information. The middleman lives! …
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Consumer Economic Behavior and the Role of Information: Three Case Studies
The economics of information is a relatively new and important field of economics. This dissertation analyzes the role of information in three case studies within three different branches of economics: health economics, environmental economics, and finance and banking. First I analyze parental …
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Demand for water resources information: a conceptual framework and empirical investigation
… framework which builds upon and extends the economics of information literature. Combining observations which emerge from a review of literature concerning organizational decision processes, this framework considers the nature of the demand and value for water resource information by …
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The Influence of Television Advertising on Domestic Tourism: A Case Study of Southern Tourist Attractions in Tanzania
This study analyzed the influence of Television (TV) advertising on domestic tourism. Specific objectives were to determine the influence of quality of message of Intra-Destination Television Advertising (IDTA) on tourist visitation, examine the influence of demographics response of IDTA on tourist …
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Exits, entrances and entrepreneurship : an exploration of economic theories of entrepreneurship through new independent entry and infant exit
The thesis began as a study of new firm formation. Preliminary research suggested that infant death rate was considered to be a closely related problem and the search was for a theory of new firm formation which would explain both. The thesis finds theories of exit and entry inadequate in this …
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Essays on Information Technology, Human Capital, and the Future of Work
… contains three essays concerning the economics of information technology, human capital, and the future of work. In the first essay, ’Occupational Change: Automation and Reskilling Risks’, I develop a methodology to study occupational skill demands and estimate the returns to skills, …
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The economics of vertical coordination in the organic wheat supply chain
… new sector for which there is very little public information to aid in price discovery. Organic wheat producers must use available information in order to decide when to sell their wheat and whom to sell to. The relatively low degree of market information, especially for producers, suggests a …
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How Should Information Technology be Regulated?
With Information Technology (IT) playing a more central role in the modern economy, governments the world over are displaying an active interest in regulating IT firms with the goal to increase competition, foster local firms or increase social surplus. My research informs such policymakers in two …
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Disintermediation and re-intermediation in the music business: the effect of multimedia technologies and E-commerce
… which centre around the "transaction cost economics" branch of management literature. Other theories used to develop the frameworks include "network externalities" and "increasing returns" from economics, "value chain" from industrial organisation and theories on "search costs" and "quality …
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Der Einsatz von virtual reality in der touristischen Online-Kommunikation aus informationsökonomischer Perspektive
… nineties, been a rapid increase in the use of the internet for marketing and selling tourist products, and internet-based tourism is now governed by keen competition between the providers/suppliers in the tourist trade. This creates a greater need for appropriate measures which will help …