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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"information economy"”.
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Caught in the web : an analysis of South Africa's response to the emerging global information policy regime
… South Africa's response to the emerging global information policy regime. Compelled by a combination of hegemonic influences and its own self interest, this study argues that South Africa accepted the liberalising commitments of the emerging global information policy regime vis-a-vis the World …
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Essays in Economics Under Uncertainty
… study the process of learningin a differential information economy. The economy extends over an infinite number of periods and we assume that the agents behave non-myopically, i.e., they discount the future. We adopt a new equilibrium concept, the non-myopic core. A realized agreement in each …
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Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
… in research, and a highly accelerated online information economy. Framing my subjects’ participation in QAnon culture alongside their Latter-day Saint identity allowed for further investigation into dynamics of competing epistemic authority and the role of Mormon identity in shaping conspiracy …
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Market share competition in the Chinese online game industry.
… theories and their limited validity for the information economy. Velu (2005) pointed out how dominant firms in a market with strong network effects adopt business innovations to sustain their market dominance. This study first investigates the validity of Velu‟s theory and then aims to …
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The convergence of supply chain integration and electronic commerce
Three forces drive the information economy: competition, customers, and change. Supply chain integration seeks to achieve optimal performance of the supply chain as a whole by finding the appropriate balance of "focused" excellence and process coordination. Successfully overcoming the corporate …
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Design of currency, markets, and economy for knowledge
Information markets benefit the communities they serve by facilitating electronic distributed exchange of information. Further benefits include enhancing knowledge sharing, innovation, and productivity. This research explores innovative market mechanisms to build longterm sustainable incentives …
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Essays on insurance and taxation
… of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax system in which entrepreneurial profits and …
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Thesis on implementation under ambiguity
… efficient notions of an ambiguous asymmetric information economy (i.e., economies where agents' preferences are maximin). The interest on the maximin efficient notions lies in the fact that they are always incentive compatible (de Castro-Yannelis 2009), a result which is false with Bayesian …
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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments
… activity employed to produce knowledge and information in the networked information economy - this project ultimately aims to demonstrate how current intellectual property paradigms must be rearticulated for an age of digital (re)production. By considering the themes of "Piracy", …
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Integrating Information Technology in Libyan Higher Education
… the perspectives of Libyan faculty use of information technology and possible barriers that might influence the adoption of educational technology at Benghazi University. Analyses of self-report survey data from 183 Benghazi faculty showed that the overall level of faculty knowledge of …
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Active Affections: One or Several Canyons
… but our increasingly globalized landscape and information economy seems to place chaos on the frontlines—as videos of military strikes in Iraq, or mundane narratives about making it through another day are available for consumption at any time. Our social world produces. The question: What to …
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A New Institutional Economic Analysis and Implications for Foreign Direct Investment in Saudi Arabia: The Framework and Effects of Contemporary International Law and Migrant Workers
… investmentclimate and the transition to a global information economy constitute a ‘critical juncture’ duringwhich the problem of switching costs can be overcome and far-‐reaching reforms can besuccessful. Of course, it goes without saying that reforms that increase protections for the rightsof …
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Essays in capital markets
… focuses on the interaction between asymmetric information and strategic behavior. The third chapter empirically assesses the informativeness of certain types of price indicators based on technical analysis. In Chapter 1 ( co-authored with Andrew Lo and Jiang Wang) we propose a dynamic …
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Belief change in probabilistic knowledge representations for open and dynamic computing environments
… to the principle of minimal change (prin ciple information economy) better than the classical Search-and-Score algorithm in all the afore-mentioned propositional Bayesian Networks and all the datasets consid ered for MEBN. The model was also found to be at least as agile as the classical …
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Because Potato
<p>This thesis project explores the phenomenological qualities of the internet; asking, since the internet is difficult to grasp, what other modes of investigation might we have available? Using an investigative framework set forth by Jack Halberstam, this thesis declines to come to knowledge …