COMM

We discuss how data caps may be evaluated under the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order. We find that heavy-users caps on mobile broadband service are likely to satisfy the Order's rules, that profit-maximizing caps on mobile broadband service may or may not ...

This paper studies incentive mechanisms for crowd-powered systems, including applications such as collection of personal data for big-data analytics and crowdsourcing. In big-data analytics using personal data, an individual may control the quality of ...

We consider a market where final products or services are compositions of a number of basic services. Users are asked to evaluate the quality of the composed product after purchase. The quality of the basic service influences the performance of the ...

In this paper, we analyse how a peer-to-peer sharing platform should price its service (when imagined as an excludable public good) to maximize profit, when each user's participation adds value to the platform service by creating a positive externality ...

Word of Mouth (WoM) is known as a powerful marketing force, as numerous empirical studies reveal that consumers' purchasing decisions are based on the advice of those in their social networks rather than on direct advertising. A recent international ...