Mobile service providers (MoSPs) emerge, propelled by ubiquitous availability of mobile devices and wireless communication infrastructures. MoSPs’ customers satisfaction and consequently their revenues, largely depend on the quality of service (QoS) offered by wireless network providers (WNPs) at a particular location and time of a mobile service usage. This chapter presents a novel business me...

We examine experimentally an auction model with externalities in which competing firms bid for licenses to a cost-reducing technology. Since winning bidders impose a negative externality on the losers, bids must account for both the value of winning the auction and the negative value of losing brought about by rivals reducing their costs. Experimental treatments differ in the severity of the ne...

Abstract – Nonprofit organizations earn both tax-exempt and taxable revenues. The taxable portion of nonprofit revenues is nonprofits smallest, yet most quickly growing revenue source. Because nonprofits may have a natural aversion to ancillary activities, taxable ventures need to provide higher returns than alternative investments. This paper examines how nonprofits’ ability to exploit product...

In this paper we relate university licensing revenues to both university research expenditures and characteristics of the university and the university technology transfer office. We apply the Hausman–Taylor estimator for panel data with time-invariant explanatory variables and the Arellano–Bover dynamic panel model to unbalanced panels for the years 1991–2003 and balanced panels for the years ...

Through the Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and other efforts, policy makers have begun to redesign Medicare to meet long-term challenges that include an aging population, rising per capita health care costs, and an inadequate benefit package. However, no proposal as of yet fully addresses Medicare's financing needs. Without any changes, revenues from taxpayers to the program ...

Performance evaluation has vital importance for businesses to maintain their activities effectively. An important part of performance evaluation is the performance measurement of employees. By measuring contribution of personal performance, people can see their individual contribution to the performance of the institution as a whole; they perceive their work and can enhance their performance by...

Casino gambling is a popular form of entertainment and is purported to have positive effects on host economies. The industry surely affects local labor markets and tax revenues. However, there has been little evidence on the effects of casino gambling on state economic growth. This paper examines that relationship using Grangercausality analysis modified for use with panel data. Our results ind...

Many online content providers aim to compensate for a loss in advertising revenues by charging consumers for access to online content. However, such a choice is not straightforward, because subscription fees typically deter customers, further reducing advertising revenues. In this research, we empirically examine and quantify a content provider’s trade-off between advertising and subscription r...

Auctions generally do not lead to efficient outcomes when the expected value of the object for sale depends on both private and common value information. We report a series of first-price auction experiments to test three key predictions of auctions with private and common values: (i) inefficiencies grow with the uncertainty about the common value while revenues fall, (ii) increased competition...