In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...

This paper tries to explore the mechanism of the choices of Open Source Software (OSS) Licenses. The benignant licensor choose between the restrictive and permissive licenses by considering how the commercial contributor reacts to the choice of OSS licenses to make the OSS project best supported...

This article presents web programming and datavisualization implementation using Stata (do file and/or ado files). Stata datasets or excel files, so as text files (.txt) are used to create, fill in and format HTML and Java content. Programming, loops and automation can be smartly implemented to...

The author revisits the Blue Bus Case, a famous thought-experiment in law involving probabilistic proof, and presents simple Bayesian solutions to different versions of the blue bus problem. In addition, the author expresses his solutions in standard and visual formats, i.e. in terms of...

This paper describes sfcross and sfpanel, two new Stata commands for the estimation of cross-sectional and panel data stochastic frontier models. sfcross extends the offi cial frontier capabilities by including additional models (Greene 2003; Wang 2002) and command functionality, such as the...

This paper examines the incentives of programmers to contribute to open source software projects on a voluntary basis. In particular, the paper looks at how this incentive changes as (i) performance becomes more visible to the relevant audience, (ii) effort has a stronger impact on performance,...

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business sector and enterprise software specifically customized for a single firm. Using firm-level data of a...

This paper discusses the role of risk communication in macroprudential oversight and of visualization in risk communication. Beyond the soar in availability and precision of data, the transition from firm-centric to system-wide supervision imposes obvious data needs. Moreover, broad and...

This paper shows how large data sets can be visualized in a dynamic way to support exploratory research, highlight econometric results or provide early warning information. The case studies included in this paper case are based on the payments and unsecured money market transaction data of the...

We examine the effect of organizational ethics on the job satisfaction of information technology professionals in Poland, a transition economy. Three dimensions of the organizational ethics -- ethical optimism, corporate social responsibility, and top management action -- are investigated. The...