The impact of Trade Points on corporate performance depends on assumptions about returns to scale, types of games played, and size of gains in demand and revenues v i s á v i s costs. Specifically: (i) in a world of profitmaximizing firms, when the contribution of Trade Points to total revenues exceeds the additional costs, Trade Points help both small firms and large ones with the size of gain...

This paper proposes a political theory of social innovation. The paper begins by introducing and reviewing recent claims made for the ways in which social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms. The paper provides a discussion and classification of the literature on collective intelligence before inve...

We analyze the incentives for a two-sided intermediary to divert consumers to its favored destinations. Using a quasi-experiment to control for search intent, we identify and measure the impact of a search engine’s exclusive award of preferential placement to its own service. We find that Google’s differential placement of its Flight Search service led to a 65% decrease in click-through rates f...

To distribute software, commercial firms have the opportunity to use some dual licensing strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). In this paper, we investigate the relevance and impacts of such distribution strategy in the presence of an already existing open source software. In this competitive setting, we determine in which con...

Le développement de l’économie numérique pose des problèmes inédits par leur ampleur en matière possibles manipulations marché et choix consommateurs. Des stratégies trompeuses déloyales dans le champ du droit la consommation peuvent coexister se renforcer mutuellement, avec infractions concurrence, qu’il s’agisse collusion algorithmique ou d’abus position dominante. Face à difficulté détecter ...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) like AI enable and require significant complementary investments. These investments are often intangible poorly measured in national accounts. We develop a model that shows how this can lead to underestimation of productivity growth new GPTs early years and, later, when the benefits harvested, overestimation. call phenomenon Productivity J-curve. apply our me...

We provide a framework and evidence to confront two contradictory yet common assertions: (1) new technology such as the Internet favors businesses in urban areas and (2) the Internet reduces the importance of distance for economic activity. Controlling for other factors, we show that participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas. This is particularly true for t...

Psychological studies find that video game play is associated with markers for violent and antisocial attitudes. It is plausible that these markers indicate either whetted or sated preferences for antisocial behavior. I investigate whether a proxy for video gaming is associated with the prevalence of various crimes and find evidence that gaming is associated with significant declines in crime a...

The business model of commercial-financing relies on advertisers to pay for content. Advertisers will not pay if consumers unbundle the advertisements from the content (advertising bypass). TiVo, remote controls, and pop-up ad blockers are examples of adavoidance technologies. Purchasing such devices causes content providers to increase advertising levels (as has happened recently) because the ...

Since 2008, multiple smartphone platforms have launched versions of “app stores”, marketplaces where consumers can purchase and download software applications for their smartphone. This paper provides evidence for both demand and supply of “apps” using data on the size and composition of smartphone user bases and of the apps available for competing platforms. Results from the estimation of a st...