Over the past decade, the most significant evolution in organization might be the dawn of the new economy in connection with the value of intellectual assets. In this paper, we combine Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) with Protégé in order to construct ontology-based Yoga method serving both as an example, and a knowledge-sharing platform. This may build a picture of experts’ knowledge and underst...

This paper uses a production function approach to put the recent contribution of the New Economy to US economic growth into perspective by undertaking an analysis of the sources of technical progress in the business sector over the post-war period. We model jointly a pair of factor demand equations derived consistently from an underlying CES production technology, and explicitly endogenise tech...

This paper is a reply to Barry Ickes' critique of my paper “Trust versus Illusion: What is Driving Demonetization in Russia?” in which I show that the data reject Barry Ickes' Virtual Economy explanation of barter in Russia in favor of an institutional explanation based on the lack of trust. JEL Classification: D20, G30, O10, P30

Information and communications technology has fostered the rise of the sharing economy, enabling individuals to share excess capacity. In this paper, we focus on Airbnb.com, which is among the most prominent examples of the sharing economy. We take the perspective of an accommodation provider and investigate the concept of trust, which facilitates complete strangers to form temporal C2C relatio...