Within developed countries, the market penetration of cell phones and the Internet has progressed in tandem and the point of market saturation is nearly to be reached in both markets. In contrast, the African continent has been characterized by a more uneven level of progress, with the...

[fre] Quels sont les facteurs qui favorisent ou au contraire freinent l ’ usage de l ’ Internet à domicile ? Afin de répondre à cette question , les enquêtes se sont multipliées ces dernières années . Dans cette lignée , cet article propose une modélisation économétrique des choix...

L’objet de cette étude est d’évaluer les effets de l’Hadopi (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des OEuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet) sur les pratiques de consommation d’oeuvres musicales et audiovisuelles. L’Hadopi peut avoir potentiellement trois types d’effets :...

<title>Abstract</title> Franchising is nowadays a prominent way to organize the distribution sector. While previous literature suggests that monitoring issues are a critical determinant of organizational choices, it is rather silent on the optimal monitoring strategy once the organization of the chain is set....

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...

The report starts from the assumption that in network industries economies of scale existing on the supply side and network externalities prevailing on the side of demand tend to limit opportunities of competition and favor industrial concentration. Under these circumstances, one may ask how...

This paper examines the structure of relationships among the major Internet service providers in order to better understand the industrial organization and interconnection strategies of these providers. We show that the network of Internet services providers exhibits a small world structure that...

[fre] L'objectif de cet article est de comprendre comment les interactions sociales concourent à l'économie d'Internet et en particulier à la dynamique de diffusion des usages en ligne. L'étude des comportements d'adoption permet aussi de mieux appréhender les modèles d'affaires des...