Recent progress towards a comprehensive peace in the Middle East has led to a relaxation of the enforcement of the Arab economic boycott of Israel. This in turn has led to the entry of all the major Japanese and Korean automobile manufacturers into the Israeli market. In this paper, we examine...

Cloud computing is defined to be Internet based computing technology, where the term 'cloud' simply means Internet - and cloud computing refers to services that are accessed directly over the Internet. There are essentially three categories of cloud computing. (i) Iaas (Infrastructure as a...

Empirical evidence that connects firm investment in cybersecurity defenses to the likelihood of being attacked has been very hard to come by. The Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) recently surveyed Israeli firms about their ICT operations...

In this paper, we first provide background on the "nuts and bolts" of a bug bounty platform a two-sided marketplace that connects firms and individual security researchers ("ethical" hackers) to find and be rewarded for discovering software vulnerabilities. We then empirically examine the effect...

We analyze how network effects affect competition in the nascent cryptocurrency market. We do so by examining the changes over time in exchange rate data among cryptocurrencies. Specifically, we look at two aspects: (1) competition among different currencies, and (2) competition among exchanges...