The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

Despite the widespread adoption of search and recommendation technologies on the Internet, empirical research that …

on the internet by Jordanian industrial companies listed in the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The study also examines the …

and Internet markets in particular have the potential to substantially increase the collective share of niche products …, thereby creating a longer tail in the distribution of sales. This paper investigates the Internet's "long tail" phenomenon. By … analyzing data collected from a multichannel retailer, it provides empirical evidence that the Internet channel exhibits a …

This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online … distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations. …