This dissertation seeks to address the sharp increase in public debate about privacy issues, particularly on the issues of Internet privacy, genetic information privacy and the value of personal information, in markets exhibiting adverse selection. The dissertation is divided into three essays....

The advent of the Internet and electronic commerce is expected to bring about several changes in the ways that organizations conduct their business. In the three essays that follow, this thesis looks into some manifestations of market power in electronic commerce. There are two broad areas where...

This research explores the economic rationale behind the increasing use of software rentals in the software industry in North America. The first part uses a two period game theoretic model to analyze a monopoly's pricing strategy. The monopoly produces two versions of the software, one in each...

Information Technology has become integral to organizations' pursuit to achieve a competitive edge in an interconnected environment. The information technology resources of organizations have become targets of perpetrators, who seek gains from causing damage to information resources of...

A phenomenon resulting from the Information Age trend of networking is that the world is becoming increasingly interlinked. Because of all this networking, organizations are becoming increasingly more vulnerable targets to potential cyberterrorist attacks. An organization could pass the effects...

In this dissertation we study problems associated with the sharing of computer and information resources. The first two essays examine optimal pricing mechanisms in Distributed Computing Systems from a theoretical and experimental perspective. We build a theoretical model of a computing grid...

This thesis consists of two essays analyzing related topics. The first essay investigates the role of search cost in electronic markets. It is the first to introduce product specificity to a search model which allows us to study both short term and long term effects of reducing search cost. It...

This purpose of this study is to investigate trading behaviors in the synthetic stock market. An agent-based computational economic simulation is used to examine the impact of changes in different parameters on the trading behavior and welfare of market participants. This approach allows for the...

The three essays in this dissertation study issues related to technology-intensive product pricing, Information Technologies (IT) workforce utilization through an emerging online channel, and IT vendor selection in online markets, respectively. The first essay considers pricing issues of...

In this thesis we identify and obtain structural results for two different problems that are motivated by electronic commerce infrastructure and bundling of information goods. Strategic implications of implementing a priority pricing scheme in an ATM-like network owned by a single firm is the...