An empirical analysis of voluntary payments for information goods on the Internet

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-239

  Borck, Rainald ^a   Frank, Björn ^a,c   Robledo, Julio R ^b  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information public goods; Internet; Voluntary public good provision

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION PUBLIC GOODS; VOLUNTARY PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644894165     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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