We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications (“apps”). Developers offer their apps at lower prices in return for greater access to personal information, and consumers…
This article provides evidence on the decision of consumers to move from an “old” (copper-based) to a “new” (fiber-based) broadband technology, taking into account the impact of regulatory interventions imposed…
In competitive common value adverse selection markets, existence of a pure strategy equilibrium is often justified by appealing to Wilson’s (J Econ Theory 16(2):167–207, 1977) concept of ‘anticipatory…
The authors document using the ZEW panel of German stock market forecasters that weak forecasters tend to be overconfident in the sense that they provide extreme forecasts and their confidence intervals are less…
This article aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test whether firms active in low-opportunity technological areas…
Deprived housing is recognized as a source of poor health, but there is still little evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. While existing literature identifies neighborhood effects and…
