The rise of E-commerce came with the promise of disintermediation. Yet, from aggregators to authenticators, the online landscape today is scattered with intermediaries such as EBay and Verisign, aiming to streamline ecommerce transactions and building consumer trust in Electronic Markets. The central theme of this paper is to understand the contextual factors that lead to consumers’ need to tru...

presently, emerging economies are acquiring singular positions all over the world. the complexities of nowadays economy have caused international companies and investors to be of a tendency towards emerging markets for more profitability and growth. this study aims to find the relationships between firm's profitability and growth in iranian manufacturing industry consisting of tehran stock...

transaction cost economics (tce), as a subset of new institutional economics (nie), is the combination of economics, organization and law. noble prize in 2009 was dedicated to oliver williamson who was the most popular face in the economics as tce main contributor. in tce, the main issues on the one hand is how institutions follow characteristics of transactions, on the other hand, the making o...

Industrial economics is a distinctive branch of economics which deals with the economic problems of firms and industries, and their relationship with society. In economic literature it is known by several names with marginal differences such as ‘Economics of Industries’, ‘Industry and Trade’, ‘Industrial Organization and Policy’, ‘Commerce’ and ‘Business Economics’ etc. The name ‘Industrial Eco...

This article explores economic aspects of the market for long-term care (LTC) in Japan. As the world's most rapidly aging nation, it is of interest to understand that country's current LTC system and projections of LTC utilization patterns and costs, as well as their potential drivers. Since Japan appears likely to experience important shortfalls in LTC in the future, the authors also discuss a...

Electronic markets have profoundly affected competition and market structures. Many authors have argued that electronic markets can promote competition and increase allocational efficiency, primarily by reducing buyer and seller search costs. However, conventional competitive models do not explain several phenomena we actually observe in electronic markets. Consequently, a variety of researcher...

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The main purpose of this study is to conduct an analysis on the use financial technology in Albania. Fintech a term dedicated digital age. diversity technological solution brings with it promise faster, cheaper, more secure and transparent transactions through internet. business model specific application economics fields. This enables users perform remotely, which improves efficiency banking s...

abstract theories of behavior consumer deal with human behaviors as a being with will and purpose, so they are based on specific assumptions about the human nature and fundamentals of decision making. these assumptions often have ideological roots in different value systems consequently they are different in various these systems. the aim of this paper is to investigate these assumptions in the...