This paper analyzes housing price dynamics in and outside of Telecom Corridor, a region near Dallas, Texas, with a high concentration of new economy firms. Using separate home price indexes in and outside this region, the paper tests whether home values are more volatile in the new economy area and compares mean-variance efficient portfolio weights on housing. The problem of hedging housing pri...

A major challenge for Agreement Technologies is the combination of existing technologies and reasoning methods. In this paper we focus on the three core layers of the Agreement Technologies tower, called Norms, Organization and Argumentation. We present a framework for arguing about agreements based on norms, roles and dependence, together with a case study from the sharing economy.

The search theory approach to understanding unemployment flourished during the 1980s and 1990s. It has provided economists with a rich set of models for analyzing unemployment and labor market issues more generally. Unfortunately, while economists have found modern search theory to be an invaluable tool, the insights provided by this approach remain largely unfamiliar to noneconomists. This rev...

There has been a growing recognition among scholars that politics matters in the distribution of resources in society. However, attempts to use a political economy ‘lens’ with which to explore causes of poverty and strategies for poverty alleviation have largely ignored elites. By failing to embrace the crucial role elites play in the implementation of pro-poor policy, existing research has not...

In the presence of a peer-to-peer economy, the option of sharing an item is valuable for consumers. By retaining control over the shareability of its products a monopolist can set a sharing tariff in conjunction with the purchase price of the product, in order to extract state-contingent surplus from consumers: the shareability rent. Using an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous con...

The search theory approach to understanding unemployment flourished during the 1980s and 1990s. It has provided economists with a rich set of models for analyzing unemployment and labor market issues more generally. Unfortunately, while economists have found modern search theory to be an invaluable tool, the insights provided by this approach remain largely unfamiliar to noneconomists. This rev...

Leadership can be seen as an instrument in effort to influence and control a person or group of people cooperate achieving certain goals. The Blue Economy is expected able answer the dependence between economy ecosystem well negative impacts economic activities including climate change global warming. principles contained blue golden key national development planning. purpose this study find ou...

Electronic business (e-business) had been popularly lauded as “new economy.” As results, firms are prompted to invest heavily in e-business related activities such as supplier/procurement and online exchanges. Whether those investments have actually paid off for those firms remain largely unknown. Using the data on the top 100 e-business leaders compiled by InternetWeek, we compare the leaders ...