Recent developments in social media have morphed the age-old practice of paying influential individuals for product endorsements into a multibillion dollar industry, extending well beyond celebrity sponsorships. We develop parsimonious model which influencers trade off increased revenue they obtain from paid with negative impact that these on their followers’ engagement and, therefore, price re...

The tax challenges of digitalization have been to the forefront national and international discussions on public revenues in recent years. digital transformation is seen as being an exacerbating factor erosion bases shifting profits low jurisdictions, particularly by multinational companies, thus reducing for governments. While there a large literature examining role ICT raising economic growth...

We have selected a panel of human tumor xenografts for in vitro and in vivo studies that allows an indication of selectivity of action of novel chemotherapeutic agents. We report here the antitumor activity of the flavone flavopiridol (previously designated L86-8275), which has been selected for further studies based in part on its behavior in the anticancer drug screening system of the United ...

I quantify the relationship between private–network file sharing activity and album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of 2,109 albums’ U.S. sales and file sharing downloads during 2008. Exogenous shocks to file sharing capacity address the simultaneity problem. In theory, piracy could crowd out sales by building file sharing capacity or increase them through word of mouth. I find eviden...

eBay’s feedback mechanism is considered crucial to establishing and maintaining trust on the world’s largest trading platform. The effects of a user’s reputation on the probability of sale and on prices are at the center of a large number of studies. More recent theoretical work considers aspects of the mechanism itself. Yet, there is confusion amongst users about its exact institutional detail...

It is well known that late introduction of new Products into the CPI leads to an upward bias in the index. Moreover, improper treatment of quality improvement in the product will add to the upward bias. In this paper a hedonic elementary price index for accessing the Internet in Canada is constructed. We find that the quality-adjusted price index declines at about 15% per year. Detailed data ar...

Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances* We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers’ hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique F...

Digital content services have become an important means of enjoying music, and considerable debate exists over the performance rights of sound recordings. In this paper, we exploit the removal of Warner Music content from YouTube in January 2009, and its restoration in October 2009, as a plausible experimental design to investigate the impact of online content availability on music sales and In...

In this paper, we consider the competition of providers of information products against P2P networks that offer illegal versions of the information products. Depending on the generic cost factor of downloading—incorporating factors including, among other things, the degree of legal enforcement of intellectual property rights—we find that the firm may employ pricing strategies to either deter th...

Records of 402 children--2l6 (53.7%) males and l86 (46.3%) females--aged 1-36 month(s), admitted to the Diarrhoea Treatment and Training Unit of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin city, Nigeria, during July 1993-June 1996, were reviewed to document the relationship between dehydration and malaria parasitaemia. There was a significant association between severity of dehydration and...