This paper analyzes how better access to financial information via new technology changes use of consumer credit and affects financial fitness. We exploit the introduction of a smartphone application for personal financial management as a source of exogenous variation. FinTech adoption reduces...

The advancement in information communication technologies has unified the world into a global village, facilitating business activities, and enhanced personal interactions among nations, business firms, captains of industries, and individuals across the globe. Access to business marketing...

Nowadays the smartphone industry becomes one of the most lucrative as well as fast-growing businesses, examining the impact on mobile game business of in China. The mobile game industry is growing fast and become the daily activities for mobile users. Due to rapid diffusion of mobile phones all...

Amazon's Free App of the Day program, aimed at improving app visibility using daily free promotions, is a compelling experiment in the ‘economics of free'. In this study, we investigate the longer-term consequences of free app promotions on the performance of apps on Amazon Appstore. In...

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous not only in the consumer domain but also support the digitalization of business operations though business apps. Many frameworks for programming cross-platform apps have been proposed, but only few modeling approaches exist that focus on platform-agnostic...

In measuring player's perception of computer games, there are many approaches that could be utilized. The usage of questionnaires, player observation, abstract models, and other approaches have been utilized over the years in this problem domain. Though the traditional approaches have been used...

This paper focuses on a specific strategy that developers of mobile applications may use to stimulate demand: the release of updates. We start with a stylised theoretical analysis to describe the developer's decision to release an update. Its predictions are then tested by using an unbalanced...

We propose a model of Bertrand competition in which consumers choose firms based on prices and qualities. Service quality depends on congestion, which is a function of capacity and output. We first present theoretical properties of the model. Next, we calibrate the model to the wireless industry...