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Content providers and the deployment of Internet infrastructure 内容提供者和互联网基础设施的部署
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101134
El Hadi Caoui, Andrew Steck
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Multimarket contact, cross-market externalities and platform competition 多市场接触、跨市场外部性和平台竞争
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101133
Eric Darmon , Thomas Le Texier , Zhiwen Li , Thierry Penard
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Do people around the world care where their data are stored? 世界各地的人们关心他们的数据存储在哪里吗？
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101132
Jeffrey Prince , Scott Wallsten
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Customer lifetime value applied to mobile apps 应用于移动应用的客户终身价值
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101131
Andreea Enache , Richard Friberg , Magnus Wiklander
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Let's switch to the cloud: Cloud usage and its effect on labor productivity 让我们转到云：云的使用及其对劳动生产率的影响
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101130
Tomaso Duso , Alexander Schiersch
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Personalized pricing with imperfect customer recognition 客户认知不完全的个性化定价
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101129
Stefano Colombo , Clara Graziano , Aldo Pignataro
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Targeted advertising, concentration, and consumer welfare 有针对性的广告、集中度和消费者福利
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101128
Lynne Pepall , Daniel Richards
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Fair-share payments for Network Investments 网络投资的公平份额支付
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101127
Daniele Condorelli , Jorge Padilla
{"title":"Fair-share payments for Network Investments","authors":"Daniele Condorelli ,&nbsp;Jorge Padilla","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Periodic investment in expanding the capacity of telecommunication networks is required to meet growing demand for data-intensive content. Telecommunication companies monetise deployed capacity by offering access to consumers, but complementary content providers capture a growing share of industry profits. As a consequence, network operators may invest suboptimally in capacity. We make this observation within a model where access and content are complementary products but capacity (maximum serviceable demand) is determined by costly investments of the access and content providers. We demonstrate how having content providers contribute a fair share of the infrastructure cost could resolve the externality problem, when the least costly way to meet capacity demands is by additional investments in the telecommunication networks rather than in reducing the bandwidth demand of content.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101127"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143174302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Attitudes to migration and the market for news 对移民的态度和新闻市场
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101126
Razi Farukh , Matthias Heinz , Anna Kerkhof , Heiner Schumacher
{"title":"Attitudes to migration and the market for news","authors":"Razi Farukh ,&nbsp;Matthias Heinz ,&nbsp;Anna Kerkhof ,&nbsp;Heiner Schumacher","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Do news outlets present the topic of migration in an overly positive or negative manner, or do they provide a neutral and holistic perspective on the topic? To study the visual bias of news media in the context of migration, we collect and code migration-related pictures that news outlets publish and – to establish a benchmark – compare them to the pictures that pro- and anti-migration ideological campaigns use in promotion materials. We find that, during the 2015-16 migration crisis, news outlets in Germany adopt differentiated attitudes to migration that largely follow their political orientation. For most news outlets, the attitude to migration is closer to pro- than to anti-migration campaigns. All news outlets except one tabloid newspaper maintain their attitude even when consumers become more critical of migration over time. Further, we conduct an international comparison and find that attitudes to migration are significantly more negative in the Hungarian than in the German market for news.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101126"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143174301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Behind the clicks: Can Amazon allocate user attention as it pleases? 点击背后：亚马逊能随心所欲地分配用户注意力吗？
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101115
Rufus Rock, Ilan Strauss, Tim O'Reilly, Mariana Mazzucato
{"title":"Behind the clicks: Can Amazon allocate user attention as it pleases?","authors":"Rufus Rock,&nbsp;Ilan Strauss,&nbsp;Tim O'Reilly,&nbsp;Mariana Mazzucato","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2024.101115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate Amazon's ability to direct user clicks to more visually prominent search results, even as quality declines with the increasing prevalence of sponsored advertising products. We analyze product results from over 2,000 Amazon Marketplace search queries to estimate how a top three most clicked product's features (price and quality) and screen placement influence a user's clicks. Our econometric results show that the position of a product search result (“position bias”), adjusted for its relative prominence on the screen, strongly shapes whether a user clicks on it. Within the top five search results, where typically four are advertisements, users exhibit decreased sensitivity to a product's relevance or pricing. This allows Amazon's sponsored ads to leverage product prominence as a mechanism for rent extraction from users and producers. Regulatory frameworks might limit platforms from exploiting consumers' satisficing behaviour online, including via moderating excessive advertising in algorithmic search results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101115"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142747520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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