Estimating demand for mobile applications in the new mobile economy

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 455-474

  Ghose, Anindya ^a   Han, Sang Pil ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Android; App characteristics; Apple; BLP; Consumer surplus; Demand and supply estimation; Mobile apps; Mobile economy; Random coefficients nested logit

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; APP CHARACTERISTICS; APPLE; BLP; CONSUMER SURPLUS; DEMAND AND SUPPLY; MOBILE APPS; MOBILE ECONOMY; NESTED LOGIT;

COSTS; FRUITS; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84886503065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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