7 research outputs found
An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data services
Cellular telephony and associated data services has been a major social
phenomena for well over a decade now. It has changed the way - in some
countries more than others - in which people communicate. In many
countries in Northern Europe and Asia, its penetration rates are very
high and in others less so but in all cases it has engendered change at
multiple levels - socially as noted and in terms of market structure and
competition with the established Incumbent Local Exchange and Inter
Exchange service providers. However, there has been little work
published in the academic literature on user consumption of cellular
voice and data services. This has been due to the unavailability of
longitudinal data at the individual user level on their consumption of
voice and data services. We have such data from a large cellular service
provider in Asia. Demand for voice and data services is influenced by
the tariffs or 'service plans' offered by firms. In our analysis we
empirically estimate the drivers for cellular services how demographic
and plan characteristics affect the user choices. We first provide a
theoretical model and then provide insight into consumption patterns
over a one year period of cellular voice and data services and relate it
to service plan design
Cell Phone Demand and Consumer Learning - An Empirical Analysis
A structural model is used in this paper to analyze the demand and
learning behavior in cell phone market. We assume that the cell phone
consumption can be divided into a high-value part and a low-value part.
The consumers are assumed to be uncertain about the exogenous shock of
the need for high-value usage and also their preferences over the
low-value usage. Meanwhile, we assume that the consumers' knowledge
improves over time. As a result, the match between their plan choice and
consumption pattern becomes better. Such a learning behavior is
supported by the data set. Bayesian updating is used to represent the
learning. The estimates of the parameters are obtained and compared to
the benchmarks from previous research
Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach
Improving the information retrieval (IR) performance of peer-to-peer
networks is an important and challenging problem. Recently, the computer
science literature has attempted to address this problem by improving IR
search algorithms. However, in peer-to-peer networks, IR performance is
determined by both technology and user behavior, and very little
attention has been paid in the literature to improving IR performance
through incentives to change user behavior. We address this gap by
combining the club goods economics literature and the IR literature to
propose a next generation file sharing architecture. Using the popular
Gnutella 0.6 architecture as context, we conceptualize a Gnutella
ultrapeer and its local network of leaf nodes as a "club" (in
economic terms). We specify an information retrieval-based utility model
for a peer to determine which clubs to join, for a club to manage its
membership, and for a club to determine to which other clubs they should
connect. We simulate the performance of our model using a unique
real-world dataset collected from the Gnutella 0.6 network. These
simulations show that our club model accomplishes both performance
goals. First, peers are self-organized into communities of interest - in
our club model peers are 85% more likely to be able to obtain content
from their local club than they are in the current Gnutella 0.6
architecture. Second, peers have increased incentives to share content -
our model shows that peers who share can increase their recall
performance by nearly five times over the performance offered to
free-riders. We also show that the benefits provided by our club model
outweigh the added protocol overhead imposed on the network for the most
valuable peers
Cell Phone Demand and Consumer Learning - An Empirical Analysis
A structural model is used in this paper to analyze the demand and
learning behavior in cell phone market. We assume that the cell phone
consumption can be divided into a high-value part and a low-value part.
The consumers are assumed to be uncertain about the exogenous shock of
the need for high-value usage and also their preferences over the
low-value usage. Meanwhile, we assume that the consumers' knowledge
improves over time. As a result, the match between their plan choice and
consumption pattern becomes better. Such a learning behavior is
supported by the data set. Bayesian updating is used to represent the
learning. The estimates of the parameters are obtained and compared to
the benchmarks from previous research
Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach
Improving the information retrieval (IR) performance of peer-to-peer
networks is an important and challenging problem. Recently, the computer
science literature has attempted to address this problem by improving IR
search algorithms. However, in peer-to-peer networks, IR performance is
determined by both technology and user behavior, and very little
attention has been paid in the literature to improving IR performance
through incentives to change user behavior. We address this gap by
combining the club goods economics literature and the IR literature to
propose a next generation file sharing architecture. Using the popular
Gnutella 0.6 architecture as context, we conceptualize a Gnutella
ultrapeer and its local network of leaf nodes as a "club" (in
economic terms). We specify an information retrieval-based utility model
for a peer to determine which clubs to join, for a club to manage its
membership, and for a club to determine to which other clubs they should
connect. We simulate the performance of our model using a unique
real-world dataset collected from the Gnutella 0.6 network. These
simulations show that our club model accomplishes both performance
goals. First, peers are self-organized into communities of interest - in
our club model peers are 85% more likely to be able to obtain content
from their local club than they are in the current Gnutella 0.6
architecture. Second, peers have increased incentives to share content -
our model shows that peers who share can increase their recall
performance by nearly five times over the performance offered to
free-riders. We also show that the benefits provided by our club model
outweigh the added protocol overhead imposed on the network for the most
valuable peers
The Effect of P2P File Sharing on Music Markets: A SurvivalAnalysisofAlbums on Ranking Charts
Recent technological and market forces have profoundly impacted the
music industry. Emphasizing threats from peer-to-peer (P2P)
technologies, the industry continues to seek sanctions against
individuals who offer significant number of songs for others to copy.
Yet there is little rigorous empirical analysis of the impacts of online
sharing on the success of music products. Combining data on the
performance of music albums on the Billboard charts with file sharing
data from a popular network, we: 1) assess the impact of recent
developments related to the music industry on survival of music albums
on the charts, and 2) evaluate the specific impact of P2P sharing on an
album's survival on the charts. In the post P2P era, we find
significantly reduced chart survival. The second phase of our study
isolates the impact of file sharing on album survival. We find that
sharing does not seem to hurt the survival of albums
The Effect of P2P File Sharing on Music Markets: A SurvivalAnalysisofAlbums on Ranking Charts
Recent technological and market forces have profoundly impacted the
music industry. Emphasizing threats from peer-to-peer (P2P)
technologies, the industry continues to seek sanctions against
individuals who offer significant number of songs for others to copy.
Yet there is little rigorous empirical analysis of the impacts of online
sharing on the success of music products. Combining data on the
performance of music albums on the Billboard charts with file sharing
data from a popular network, we: 1) assess the impact of recent
developments related to the music industry on survival of music albums
on the charts, and 2) evaluate the specific impact of P2P sharing on an
album's survival on the charts. In the post P2P era, we find
significantly reduced chart survival. The second phase of our study
isolates the impact of file sharing on album survival. We find that
sharing does not seem to hurt the survival of albums