发布求助
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献

Information Economics and Policy最新文献

筛选
英文 中文
Managing network traffic with discriminatory strategies: A study of zero-rating in an Internet market monopoly 以歧视性策略管理网络流量：互联网市场垄断下的零评级研究
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101141
L. Pinar-Garcia , I. Arribas , A. Urbano
{"title":"Managing network traffic with discriminatory strategies: A study of zero-rating in an Internet market monopoly","authors":"L. Pinar-Garcia ,&nbsp;I. Arribas ,&nbsp;A. Urbano","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Zero-rating is a recent practice that allows internet providers to discriminate among content. We offer new insights on the role of zero-rating practices when there is network congestion. In a market where consumers differ in their preferences for network speed, those who value network speed more create a congestion externality for an Internet Service Provider that limits its ability to capture consumer surplus from those who value network speed less. The monopolist may internalize the network congestion by using two discriminatory strategies: a menu of tariffs as a screening mechanism between consumers and zero-rating as a content revaluation tool. The combination of the two strategies acts as a mechanism to control network traffic without incremental provisioning of capacity. This is done by managing the network flow, through the strategic reallocation of the network traffic between content providers and consumers. Finally, zero-rating is detrimental to consumers independently of their type.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101141"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522926","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}
引用次数: 0
The Shapley index for music streaming platforms 音乐流媒体平台的Shapley指数
IF 4.5 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101142
Gustavo Bergantiños , Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
{"title":"The Shapley index for music streaming platforms","authors":"Gustavo Bergantiños ,&nbsp;Juan D. Moreno-Ternero","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study an index to measure the popularity of artists in music streaming platforms. This index, which can be used to allocate the amount raised via paid subscriptions among participating artists, is based on the Shapley value, a centerpiece in cooperative game theory. We characterize this <em>Shapley index</em> combining several axioms formalizing principles with normative appeal. This permits to place the index in the literature, as an alternative to the well-known (and widely used in the industry) pro-rata and user-centric indices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101142"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535492","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}
引用次数: 0
The wave of government digitalization: How government digital procurement affects residents’ employment 政府数字化浪潮：政府数字化采购如何影响居民就业
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101145
Wei Jiang, Chunxing Gao
{"title":"The wave of government digitalization: How government digital procurement affects residents’ employment","authors":"Wei Jiang,&nbsp;Chunxing Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the expansion of the scale of government digital procurement, its impact on economic life, especially on the labor market, has become increasingly evident. This paper employs Double Machine Learning (DML) estimation techniques to examine the impact of local government digital procurement on resident employment. The research findings indicate that local government digital procurement significantly reduces the unemployment rate among residents, and this conclusion holds after rigorous robustness checks. Further analysis reveals that these positive effects on employment are achieved through increased capital investment, enhanced job value, and improved productivity. Additionally, the impact of government digital procurement on employment is more pronounced in non-digital industries, and the beneficial effects on employment are more significant in regions with a larger proportion of the tertiary industry, higher levels of foreign investment, and more comprehensive social security systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101145"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749447","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}
引用次数: 0
Economies of scope in data aggregation: Evidence from health data 数据汇总中的范围经济：来自卫生数据的证据
IF 3.2 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101146
Bruno Carballa-Smichowski , Néstor Duch-Brown , Seyit Höcük , Pradeep Kumar , Bertin Martens , Joris Mulder , Patricia Prüfer
{"title":"Economies of scope in data aggregation: Evidence from health data","authors":"Bruno Carballa-Smichowski ,&nbsp;Néstor Duch-Brown ,&nbsp;Seyit Höcük ,&nbsp;Pradeep Kumar ,&nbsp;Bertin Martens ,&nbsp;Joris Mulder ,&nbsp;Patricia Prüfer","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Economies of scope in data aggregation (ESDA) are generated by the combination of complementary datasets involving the same observations. We estimate ESDA by progressively and randomly adding health and socioeconomic variables (predictors) to the machine-learning models we use to predict health outcomes. We find a positive effect of the number of variables on prediction quality, while holding the number of observations constant. We observe a positive relationship between variable complementarity and ESDA. ESDA show signs of increasing returns followed by decreasing returns. We further observe a long tail of highly contributing predictors in our data. These findings indicate that the nature of returns to scope in data aggregation may depend on the distribution of the predictors' information content. This underscores the importance of variable characteristics in determining ESDA's potential to create data barriers to entry. These results can help policymakers in designing data sharing initiatives such as the European Union's Common European Data Spaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101146"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890883","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}
引用次数: 0
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 : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101131
Andreea Enache , Richard Friberg , Magnus Wiklander
{"title":"Customer lifetime value applied to mobile apps","authors":"Andreea Enache ,&nbsp;Richard Friberg ,&nbsp;Magnus Wiklander","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using customer-level data from 2017 for two mobile app word games in France and the US, this study explores the adaptability of customer lifetime value (CLV) models, widely used for e-commerce data, to the mobile app domain. We evaluate the Pareto/NBD model and its four extensions, focusing on dropout process simplification, transaction regularity, dropout-transaction rate correlation, and the inclusion of predictive covariates like gameplay and video views. Although the Pareto/NBD model has strong predictive performance, an extension accounting for dropout-transaction rate correlation excels in out-of-sample performance. By comparing with the e-commerce-based CDNOW dataset, we highlight significant disparities in the relative performance of different models, emphasizing the distinctive nature of mobile app data. We find also slight variations in estimated parameters across different markets, platforms, and games.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101131"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835180","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}
引用次数: 0
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 : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101128
Lynne Pepall , Daniel Richards
{"title":"Targeted advertising, concentration, and consumer welfare","authors":"Lynne Pepall ,&nbsp;Daniel Richards","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We develop a model of horizontal differentiation in which firms compete in both price and advertising where the latter adds value to consumption of the advertised product. Targeted advertising means not only that advertising is sent to specific individuals but also that the message content of such advertising is customized. As targeted advertising becomes less costly, market concentration and prices both increase. In equilibria where all consumers receive value-enhancing ads, consumer surplus rises. However, if targeting is incomplete, some consumers will be worse off. In some instances, these losses may be sufficiently large that total consumer surplus declines as well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101128"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143421157","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}
引用次数: 0
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 : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101130
Tomaso Duso , Alexander Schiersch
{"title":"Let's switch to the cloud: Cloud usage and its effect on labor productivity","authors":"Tomaso Duso ,&nbsp;Alexander Schiersch","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms use IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted, variable spending on cloud solutions. This is also expected to increase firms' productivity by allowing them to quickly adapt their IT infrastructure to their specific needs. We assess this claim using firm-level data provided by the German statistical offices for the years 2014 and 2016, which allows us to observe who the cloud users are. Our analysis explicitly accounts for self-selection into cloud usage within an endogenous treatment regression framework. Municipal broadband availability is used as a plausible exogenous shifter for cloud usage. We show that cloud usage significantly improves labor productivity for large firms, particularly in manufacturing, but we find no effect for small firms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101130"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437587","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}
引用次数: 0
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 : 2025-06-01 Epub 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":"2025-06-01","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}
引用次数: 0
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 : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101129
Stefano Colombo , Clara Graziano , Aldo Pignataro
{"title":"Personalized pricing with imperfect customer recognition","authors":"Stefano Colombo ,&nbsp;Clara Graziano ,&nbsp;Aldo Pignataro","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2025.101129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We consider a duopoly model where firms charge personalized prices to the consumers they can recognize and a uniform price to the rest of consumers. We assume that each firm can identify only a fraction of consumers at each point of the Hotelling line. This fraction is determined by two factors, denoted as intensive and extensive margin, that define the degree of accuracy and the extension of the information respectively. We show that profits are non-monotonic in the size of the two margins and we characterize under which information conditions the firms’ profits are maximized. Finally, we provide some policy implications concerning the protection of consumers. In particular we show that when firms face restrictions in collecting information so that their competition is prevented, consumers surplus is maximized when personalized and uniform prices coexist.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101129"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387909","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}
引用次数: 0
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 : 2025-06-01 Epub 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":"2025-06-01","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}
引用次数: 0
首页 上一页 下一页 尾页
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整，为了账户安全，请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
相关产品
×
本文献相关产品
联系我们：info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务，方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号：604180095
Book学术官方微信
小红书