Digitale Plattformen und Geschäftsmodelle stellen ein Kernelement der heutigen Internetökonomie dar. Mit der Entwicklung von großen Internetkonzernen wird das Internet zunehmend zentralistischer. Endanwender werden dabei immer stärker in die Ökosysteme einzelner großer Anbieter eingebunden...

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

Results of hedonic price regressions for personal computer operating systems and productivity suites advertised in PC World magazine by retail vendors during the time period 1984 to 2000 are reported. Among the quality attribute variables we use are new measures capturing the presence of network...

Improvements in the software that provides hardware management, user interface and platform functions have played a central role in the growth and transformation of the personal computer (PC) industry. Several forces shape the design of these 'operating system' products and propel their...

Information Technology has evolved over a period of time from Electronic Data Processors (EDP) to Cloud based technologies. Software is a critical component in this industry. The core product component in software is the set of instructions in the form of source code. During inception of the...

How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source software, an unpriced commodity in...

Different mobile operating system or shopping app versions enable different functionality and information flow, thus creating various mobile shopping environments. In general, up-to-date versions provide better information flows and richer functionality. However, mobile operating systems and...

Lots of technical issues that affect the sensor networks focusing on management, optimization and management. Many applications such as video conferencing, distance education etc., require to send a timely message from one end to the other selected base stations. These applications have...

Utilizing a privateering competitive strategy, firms sponsor the assertion of IP claims by third parties (patent assertion entities and others), with the ultimate objective the raising of rival competitors' costs. This paper tells the privateering story with respect to both desktop and mobile...

Modern economic theory predicts that tying can serve as a tool for leveraging market power. In line with this economic theory, competition authorities regulate the tying of Microsoft Windows with its Media Player or Internet browser in the EU and Japan. The authorities also take note of the...

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...

In diesem Beitrag werden Entwicklungen des digitalen Zeitalters wie Musik-Streaming, Betriebssysteme und Apps sowie soziale Netzwerke mit ökonomischen Modellen erklärt. Die teilweise sehr mathematischen Modelle aus der Industrie- und der Netzwerkökonomik werden aber nicht formal dargestellt....

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

The emergence and market success of Linux in recent years has been impressive. Contrary to common belief, commercial enterprises are active only in the provision of services (including distribution) related to Linux. The emergence of this service market has paved the way for Linux to become a...

This paper investigates how much of the persistence in Windows usage is due to lock-in or unobserved preferences. While the hypothesis of lock-in plays an important role in the antitrust policy debate for the operating systems market, it has not been extensively documented empirically. In this...

This paper analyzes and compares the investment incentives of platform and application developers for Linux and Windows. We find that the level of investment in applications is larger when the operating system is open source rather than proprietary. The comparison of the levels of investment in...

This paper evaluates the nature, relative incidence and drivers of software piracy. In contrast to prior studies, we analyze data that allows us to measure piracy for a specific product - Windows 7 - which was associated with a significant level of private sector investment. Using anonymized...

This paper evaluates the nature, relative incidence and drivers of software piracy. In contrast to prior studies, we analyze data that allows us to measure piracy for a specific product - Windows 7 - which was associated with a significant level of private sector investment. Using anonymized...

We describe the design and implementation of a complete flight-software operating system (OS) for a high-performance CubeSat carrying a third-party payload. This CubeSat's mission is to carry out research experiments on this payload while in low earth orbit. These experiments may be specified...

The econometricians and the economic modelers have to know and use numerical analysis not only to have a good understanding of their results, but sometimes to built their own tools. The increasing tendency to the use of large-scale models leads the softwares to reach the limit of the saturation...

Because the demand for OS is a derived demand revealed through the demand for PCs and because its elasticity is relatively small, the profit-maximizing price of DOS/WIN that would result from a static equilibrium is much higher than the observed price. We investigate this assertion empirically...