Presidential elections can impact world peace, global economics, and overall well-being. Recent news indicates that fraud on the Web has played a substantial role in elections, particularly in developing countries in South America and the public discourse, in general. To protect the...

This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we...

Online shopping is gaining popularity in Pakistan but the research on its determinants is scarce. The main purpose of this study is to explore what factors are important in developing online purchase intention of Pakistani youth interested in shopping through the internet. The data were...

We extend the theory of tax incidence under Cournot-Nash oligopolistic competition to study the effects of an ad valorem sales tax on Web services (so-called Web Tax) that are provided free of charge to users, and produce advertising space sold to businesses. Ads are more valuable to advertisers...

With an ever expanding content and user base, the Web presents information discovery and consumption challenges for both consumers and producers of information. Producers of information strive for visibility among consumers who have limited attention. Corporate websites are a primary digital...

This work aims to study a subject that has become increasingly important in today's society and that requires constant and updated research: the online tourism, and the relationship between consumers and the websites dedicated to the provision of services of accommodation reservations. This way,...

This paper challenges a long-held assumption of prior research that online word of mouth (eWOM) is anonymous and impersonal by examining online shoppers' opinion seeking in the context of using a product review website affording access to a digital social network (SN). Motivated by the need to...

Consumers consistently resort to online Word-of-Mouth (WOM) as an effective remedy for the lack of physical trials in online shopping. Nevertheless, they are confronting relatively different levels of search costs for WOM information depending on the distribution of WOM across websites. This...

This report presents the findings of the study "Online Dispute Resolution: Web-Scraping of EU Traders' Websites". The aim of the study was to research the compliance of online traders in the EU with their information obligations pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 on online dispute...