Essays in Information Economics.

Open Contents;Spam;Open Source;Modularity;Anti-spam Economic Mechanisms;Censorship;Economics;Business;Information

Chiao, Hak FungLitman, Jessica D. ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Open Contents;    Spam;    Open Source;    Modularity;    Anti-spam Economic Mechanisms;    Censorship;    Economics;    Business;    Information;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/75967/bchiao_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

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.