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The goal of this paper is to analyze the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data … the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a …
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This paper examines whether there is a digital divide in the use of the internet in general and for specific purposes … clickstream of almost 20,000 internet users in the five largest EU economies during 2011. Our main finding is that, for those who … have access to the Internet, the income-based digital divide in internet use has been reversed. Low-income internet users …
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Several studies have examined the market value of paid-for internet services and internet access. This paper estimates … time spent online and opportunity cost of time, to an internet users’ clickstream dataset for the five largest economies in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
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This paper presents an innovative database of domestic and bilateral online services trade between 39 countries, including the US, the EU and some emerging market economies. It combines monetized and “free” online services in a single measure based on the volume of page views on websites of...
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Despite the rapidly growing volume and economic importance of data in the digital economy, the legal framework for data ownership, access and trade remains incompletely defined in the EU and elsewhere. De facto data ownership dominates and often leads to fragmentation or anti-commons problems in...
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Digital platforms facilitate interactions between consumers and merchants that allow collection of profiling information, which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in market failures both on-platform, among merchants, and...
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Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469335