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Education outcomes of broadband expansion in Brazilian municipalities 巴西城市宽带扩展的教育成果
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100983
Alexandre Lauri Henriksen, Ana Carolina Zoghbi, Maria Tannuri-Pianto, Rafael Terra
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引用次数: 2
Digital government as a business facilitator 作为商业促进者的数字政府
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100990
João Martins , Linda Gonçalves Veiga
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引用次数: 9
Harmonic price targeting 协调价格目标
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100984
Daniel Garcia
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引用次数: 0
Let the user speak: Is feedback on Facebook a source of firms’ innovation? 让用户说话:Facebook上的反馈是公司创新的源泉吗?
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100991
Irene Bertschek , Reinhold Kesler
{"title":"Let the user speak: Is feedback on Facebook a source of firms’ innovation?","authors":"Irene Bertschek ,&nbsp;Reinhold Kesler","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social media open up new possibilities for firms to exploit information from various external sources. Does this information help firms to become more innovative? Combining firm-level survey data with information from firms’ Facebook pages, we study the role that firms’ and users’ activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms’ adoption of a Facebook page as well as feedback from users are positively and significantly related to product innovations. Our results withstand a large set of robustness checks, including estimations that take potential endogeneity of firms’ Facebook use as well as unobserved heterogeneity into account. Analyzing the content of firm posts and user comments reveals that Facebook adoption is only correlated with product innovations if firms and users actively participate in a discussion, especially when engagement is above-average and comes from both sides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100991"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137419572","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
Carpe Data: Protecting online privacy with naive users Carpe Data:保护天真用户的在线隐私
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100988
Laura Abrardi, Carlo Cambini
{"title":"Carpe Data: Protecting online privacy with naive users","authors":"Laura Abrardi,&nbsp;Carlo Cambini","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we study the optimal design of incentives to induce a digital platform to limit the extraction of data from users, whose privacy loss is further aggravated by their naive use of the platform. We show that caps on the amount of data collected can induce the optimal data-saving effort by the platform. If the platform’s effort is not observable, a menu of data caps should be provided and it entails a higher (lower) loss of privacy for less (more) naive users, relative to the first best. We also show that compensating users for their data can efficiently incentivize effort, but might increase the privacy loss of more naive users.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100988"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43801499","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: 1
Exclusive content and platform competition in Latin America 拉丁美洲独家内容和平台竞争
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100989
Alexander Cuntz , Kyle Bergquist
{"title":"Exclusive content and platform competition in Latin America","authors":"Alexander Cuntz ,&nbsp;Kyle Bergquist","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100989","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Platforms often compete over non-price strategies such as the exclusive distribution of products. But these strategies are not always welfare-enhancing. Using rich data on audiovisuals distributed on platforms in Brazil, we find that non-exclusive distribution and availability of titles across platforms is more effective in deterring online piracy than in the single-homing case. Moreover, for the subset of domestic movies, it induces higher average investment in the quality of new titles upstream. We discuss options of copyright and competition policies in the light of these findings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100989"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45815665","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: 2
Universal high-speed broadband provision: A simple auction approach 通用高速宽带供应:一个简单的拍卖方法
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100994
Elmar G. Wolfstetter
{"title":"Universal high-speed broadband provision: A simple auction approach","authors":"Elmar G. Wolfstetter","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100994","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100994","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Millions of citizens and firms lack access to high speed internet, even though governments pledged to spend huge sums of money to subsidize internet networks. In this paper we review some systematic flaws of present policies and outline a promising alternative. We propose that governments should treat the broadband infrastructure as a public responsibility and set up public-private partnerships that deploy, fund, and temporarily operate the broadband in exchange for collecting service fees and, if necessary, subsidies. Least-present-value-of-revenue auctions can be used to award all concessions, not only those that are expected to require subsidies, and concessions should revert to public ownership and be re-auctioned if the promised present value of revenue has been reached through collection of service fees. This procurement method is easy to implement, efficient, and immune to strategic manipulations and renegotiations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100994"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48970249","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
Vertical integration, innovation and foreclosure with competing ecosystems 垂直整合，创新和止赎与竞争的生态系统
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100981
Michele Bisceglia , Jorge Padilla , Salvatore Piccolo , Shiva Shekhar
{"title":"Vertical integration, innovation and foreclosure with competing ecosystems","authors":"Michele Bisceglia ,&nbsp;Jorge Padilla ,&nbsp;Salvatore Piccolo ,&nbsp;Shiva Shekhar","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the competitive effects of a vertical merger in a digital industry where an integrated incumbent (closed ecosystem) competes with an open ecosystem formed by an upstream supplier (ecosystem gatekeeper) and two downstream retailers selling differentiated products. Absent innovation, the incumbent sells a superior product compared to the rivals’ ones. Yet, the gatekeeper of the open ecosystem can fill up this gap by engaging in product innovation. We investigate the impact of vertical integration on the gatekeeper’s incentives to foreclose its non-integrated downstream unit and innovate its ecosystem to compete head-to-head with the incumbent. The vertically integrated gatekeeper raises the costs of the unintegrated competitor to relax intra-ecosystem competition but does not fully foreclose it as that would cause fiercer inter-ecosystem competition. Moreover, vertical integration enhances innovation within the open ecosystem, enabling its participants to catch up with the incumbent. Overall, vertical integration may benefit consumers even when it softens intra-ecosystem competition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100981"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137419574","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
Impact of information technology on firm performance: New evidence from Indian manufacturing 信息技术对企业绩效的影响:来自印度制造业的新证据
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100986
Rupika Khanna , Chandan Sharma
{"title":"Impact of information technology on firm performance: New evidence from Indian manufacturing","authors":"Rupika Khanna ,&nbsp;Chandan Sharma","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100986","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>India has risen to prominence as a global supplier of information technology (IT). However, the extent to which IT benefits Indian manufacturing is less well known. We assess the effects of IT capital on firm's growth from 1998 to 2016. We make two significant contributions: (i) we make comparisons between different periods, high-IT intensive and low-IT intensive sectors and 14 manufacturing industries at a disaggregated-level, (ii) to overcome the problems of simultaneity in production function estimation, we employ a recently developed semi-parametric technique. Our findings indicate that (i) IT as a production input contributes significantly to firm's output, yet the estimated effects vary significantly by time-period and industry, (ii) the impact of IT is maximum between 2000 and 2009, and then begins to weaken between 2010 and 2016, (iii) IT elasticities in high- and low-technology sectors appear to be converging, particularly between 2010 and 2016.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100986"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42052176","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
Online privacy and market structure: Theory and evidence 网络隐私与市场结构:理论与证据
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100985
Lorien Sabatino , Geza Sapi
{"title":"Online privacy and market structure: Theory and evidence","authors":"Lorien Sabatino ,&nbsp;Geza Sapi","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We empirically analyse the effects of the 2009 ePrivacy Directive in Europe on firm revenues. Our results indicate that, if any, only large firms were weakly negatively affected by the implementation of the Directive. We also provide a simple theoretical model predicting an avenue how privacy regulation may predominantly influence the revenues and profits of larger firms, even if - as some of our evidence indicates - these larger firms may actually offer more privacy than smaller rivals. Our results suggest that while privacy regulation is not without costs to businesses, it need not distort competition to the favour of larger firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46199454","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: 23
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