This paper presents the results from a literature study on the value of information. I have reviewed the information, accounting and business literature to find economic attributes of information and information valuation attempts. There is at least some consensus on a number economic properties and identifying information as an asset to the organization. Also a number of valuation attempts hav...

Online social networks are gaining increasing economic importance in light of the rising number of members. The numerous recent acquisitions priced at enormous amounts illustrate this development. Therefore, the growing relevance of online social networks in science as well as in practise revealed the need for adequate valuation models, which take into account these networks’ specific character...

objective: the main objective of this research was the economic valuation of public library services using the contingent valuation. although, estimating the average willingness to pay for public library service, demographics on the willingness to pay, and economic valuation and pricing public library services were other objectives that investigated in this study. methodology: explanatory varia...

We introduce a model for a market based economic system of cyber-risk valuation to correct fundamental problems of incentives within the information technology and information processing industries. We assess the makeup of the current day marketplace, identify incentives, identify economic reasons for current failings, and explain how a market based risk valuation system could improve these inc...

India has a lot of historical places. Among them one the most precious is Taj Mahal. Due to fewer threats conservation, placed on the1996 watch list 100 endangered sites by World Monument Fund. In this study, an attempt was made calculate economic value Mahal in relation conservation issues. This study assesses households' WTP for through CVM study. Single Bounded Dichotomous Choice with open-e...

• To compare benefits and costs. Although we would like to live in a world with perfectly clean air and water, the costs of reaching this goal is beyond most countries. This means comparing the expected benefits of competing investments with the costs of each. Economic analysis, in the form of either benefit-cost analysis or, where benefits cannot be measured (or are not measured), the use of c...

Firm foundation theory estimates a security’s firm fundamental value based on four determinants: expected growth rate, expected dividend payout, the market interest rate and the degree of risk. In contrast, other views of decision-making in the stock market, using alternatives such as human psychology and behavior, bounded rationality, agent-based modeling and evolutionary game theory, expound ...

In this study, we employ a choice-based conjoint survey design to elicit individual choices of beach erosion control programs that can potentially cause multiple effects on beach environment. Two empirical choice models which incorporate individual heterogeneity, are used to analyze and compare the elicited individual choices of erosion control programs. Our results show that to a typical indiv...