in spite of sonic pessimistic attitudes towards methodology of economics, it has succeeded as a central theme in numerous books, refereed journals, international conferences and symposiums whose volume is increasing at an unprecedented rate. the proliferation of methodological literature also is accompanied by a proliferation of issues that concern: the goals of economics, realism of economics,...

The assessment of the effectiveness of e-commerce websites is of critical importance to online retailers. However, the current techniques for evaluating effectiveness are limited in that they do not allow for formal empirical measurement of the productivity and performance of the website. In this paper, we use the theoretical perspective of production economics to measure the performance of Int...

Although in its infancy, one promising application of Internet technology for firms is so-called Internet commerce or electronic commerce. This paper analyses the determinants of B2B (business-to-business) adoption borrowing from the literature on the adoption of new technologies and considering factors like firm size, corporate status, human capital and international competitive situation. An ...

The purpose of the paper is to discuss ten things potential users should know about the limits of the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) representation for estimating and forecasting time-varying conditional correlations. The reasons given for caution about the use of DCC include the following: DCC represents the dynamic conditional covariances of the standardized residuals, and hence does n...

This paper provides evidence that offshore patent laws influence global firms’ innovation decisions. Within a simple model of multinational production, we find that a novel consequence of imitation risk is that firms innovate selectively, directing investments in product development toward relatively short-lived varieties that are difficult to imitate prior to obsolescence. A key implication of...

and forestry. To solve some of the problems in forestry and agriculture, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Saarland Ministry of Economics founded the Cooperative Agents and Integrated Services for Logistic and Electronic Trading in Forestry and Agriculture (Casa) project. The Casa project focuses on developing an agentbased information and trading network (ITN). In ...

This presentation is focused on the connections between online community and commerce/economics, particularly the rhetoric of community as it has been taken up by those in e-commerce endeavors. It makes the case that the most influential symbol for online community, the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) should be examined in light of sociocultural trends apart from Internet-related ones, most ...

The thesis consists of three essays on issues important to the management of information technology in organizations. The first focuses on outsourcing. The second and third examine the stock market effects of decisions to initiate electronic commerce. The first essay compares five different contracting theories from economics to determine which best describes information technology outsourcing....

Economics has for a long time been regarded as a creation for the perfect world. In reality, many have argued, various forms of social barriers such as hierarchies have been created in commercial, corporate and institution structures to defy the frictionless legend of the perfect economic theories. The recent rise of the Internet, and commercial activities therewith, have, with no doubt, make i...