Essays in Information Economics.
dc.contributor.author | Chiao, Hak Fung | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-03T15:50:03Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-03T15:50:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | en_US | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75967 | |
dc.description.abstract | I study two economic responses to the challenges of copyright infringements and spam brought about by the birth of the Internet. These responses are anti-spam mechanisms and open contents. I derive conditions under which distribution and care level taken to avoid damages in open contents are socially efficient or inefficient. Then I report experimental results on the production of open contents. I compare free-riding, efficiency and spillover when there are large or small teams using non-modular or modular production. Lastly, I propose and evaluate an anti-spam mechanism called uncensored communication channel, which aims to entice spam-demanders and spam-suppliers to trade in there instead of the traditional email channels. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 3014664 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 1373 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Open Contents | en_US |
dc.subject | Spam | en_US |
dc.subject | Open Source | en_US |
dc.subject | Modularity | en_US |
dc.subject | Anti-spam Economic Mechanisms | en_US |
dc.subject | Censorship | en_US |
dc.title | Essays in Information Economics. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Information | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Chen, Yan | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Cohen, Michael D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Litman, Jessica D. | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75967/1/bchiao_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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