The last decades have seen large improvements in digital advertising technology that allowed firms to better target specific consumer tastes. This research studies the relationship among digital advertising, the rise of varieties, and economic welfare. We develop a model of advertising and...

The last decades have seen large improvements in digital advertising technology that allowed firms to better target specific consumer tastes. This research studies the relationship among digital advertising, the rise of varieties, and economic welfare. We develop a model of advertising and...

This paper explains the roles that blogs, wikis and social networking play in the provision and dissemination of official statistics.

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...

This study aims to investigate the socio-demographic determinants of computer ownership in Gui Lin, China. A cross-sectional primary survey data with a total of 459 respondents is used for the analysis. By applying the binary logistic regression model, the results show that age, marital status,...

This paper analyzes the determinants of labor productivity in the services firms of Colombia. In particular, we examine the relation between information and communication technologies –ICT– (in terms of investment and use) and productivity. The study finds that ICT investment and use jointly...

This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...

New ways of strategic approach are available due to information technologies. New dimensions in business experiments are possible. Company can now meet its research needs much more efficient. It takes less money and less time to come to similar results with business experiments as with...

This note summarizes and updates our previous survey of the economics of digital piracy (Belleflamme and Peitz, 2012).