Internet is a very attractive technology for experiments implementation, both in order to reach more diverse and larger samples and as a field of economic research in its own right. This paper reports on an experiment performed both online and in the laboratory, designed so as to strengthen the...

This paper presents an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovative bargaining mechanism (called automated negotiation) used to resolve disputes arising from Internet-based transactions. The main result shows that the settlement rule tends to chill bargaining as it creates...

The objective of this paper is twofold: first we use the methodology developed by Goolsbee and Klenow (2006) (G&K) that estimates the consumer's surplus of Internet's connection for France in 2005. Second, our paper challenges the initial methodology developed by G & K by using two complementary...

Given the increasingly prominent role the Internet plays in people's daily life, understanding its influence on individual well-being is crucial. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns that may increase life satisfaction. But the Internet might also have detrimental effects...

La diffusion des TIC chez les PE demeure faible (Eurostat 2010) et pourtant parmi les applications IT, internet est pour les PE une source d'opportunités de développement de leur business (Scaglione et al. 2009). L'un des enjeux est donc de savoir si internet peut être utilisé efficacement...

This paper is the first attempt to formalize a new field of economics; studding the Intangibles Goods available on the Internet. We are taking advantage of the digital world's specific rules to propose a theory of trading & sharing unified. A function based money is created as a world-wide...

Nous présentons trois études de cas qui illustrent les nouveaux réseaux à la disposition du dirigeant de petite entreprise : importance des signaux faibles dans des clubs de dirigeants, utilisation d'Internet pour dé-problématiser la relation entre l'expert comptable et le dirigeant,...

Is there an opportunity with Internet to build new weak-link networks for sharing knowledge and developing innovation? This article describes the research carried out in a French Regional Chamber of Trade and Crafts. Our work consisted of establishing two successive interactive portals...