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Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilming: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books
(Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999)
This working paper examines the dual use of microfilm for preservation and digital imaging for enhanced access in the context of the brittle books program. It seeks to build on work that has already been accomplished, ...
Tax distortions to the choice of organizational form
(Elsevier, 1994-10)
Income from corporate and noncorporate firms is treated very differently under the tax law. In theory, given existing tax law, the noncorporate sector should consist of very profitable firms owned by low-tax-bracket investors ...
Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms
(1997)
The Internet is growing rapidly as a marketplace for the exchange of both tangible and information goods and services. Numerous payment mechanisms suitable for use in this marketplace are in various stages of development. ...
Bilateral Negotiation With Fees
(1999)
Bilateral negotiation over a single good or service is a fundamental problem for automated systems, and is surprisingly resistant to general solutions. In this paper we offer advice and new results for the design of ...
The Role of Responsive Pricing in the Internet
(MIT Press, 1996)
The recent introduction of user-friendly navigation and retrieval tools for the World Wide Web has triggered an unprecedented level of interest in the Internet among the media and the general public, as well as in the ...
Generalized Vickrey Auctions
(1994-07)
We describe a generalization of the Vickrey auction. Our mechanism extends the auction to implement efficient allocations for problems with more than one good, multiple units for the goods, and externalities. The primary ...
One Size Doesn't Fit All: Improving Network QoS Through Preference-driven Web Caching
(1999-08)
In order to combat Internet congestion Web caches use replacement policies that attempt to keep the objects in a cache that are most likely to get requested in the future. We adopt the economic perspective that the objects ...
Factors Affecting Students' Use of MEDLINE
(Elsevier, 1993-12)
MEDLINE search transcripts by a class of third-year medical students were analyzed. The 184 students were divided into three groups according to their search experience in terms of the number of sessions logged at the time ...
Automated Strategy Searches in an Electronic Goods Market: Learning and Complex Price Schedules
(ACM Press, 1999-11)
In an automated market for electronic goods new problems arise that have not been well studied previously. For example, information goods are very flexible. Marginal costs are negligible and nearly limitless bundling and ...