Global economy and digital society / edited by Erik Bohlin [and others].

Selected papers presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Seoul, South Korea, August 18-22, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- List of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Global Economy and Digital Society: An Introduction -- Part I : Global Economy and Digital Markets: Boom and Bust? -- Chapter 2. The Telecoms Boom and Bust, 1996-2002: Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Processing -- Chapter 3. The Emerging Cyclicality of the Telecom Industry -- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of E-Commerce in B2B and B2C Transactions: Complementing Location, Personal Interactions and Pre-existing Relations -- Part II: Global Economy and Digital Technology -- Chapter 5. OECD Growth Blocs and the Role of ICT -- Chapter 6. Information Technology, Efficiency, and Productivity Growth in the Japanese Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing Sectors -- Chapter 7. The Impact of Korean Telecommunications Sector on Regional Output and Input Trade: Country-Level Study in the Asia-Pacific Region -- Part III: Digital Goods: Theoretical Investigation -- Chapter 8. Price Dispersion in the Internet Marketplace: Are Service-premium Strategies Relevant? -- Chapter 9. Disclosure of Source Code to a Technologically Advanced Entrant -- Chapter 10. Weighing the Intangible: Towards a Theory-based Framework for Information Society Indices -- Part IV: ICT Market Evolution and the Digital Society -- Chapter 11. Applying the Principle of Modularity to the Internet QoS Service Model Design -- Chapter 12. Determinants of Customer Retention for Korean High-speed Internet Services -- Chapter 13. The Analysis of Broadband Demand Using Data on Willingness-to-pay -- Chapter 14. Drivers of Demand Growth for Mobile Telecommunications Services: Evidence from International Panel Data -- Part V: Policy Aspects of the Digital Society -- Chapter 15. Institutional Arrangements of Regional Regulatory Regimes: Telecommunications Regulation in the European Union and the Limits to Policy Convergence -- Chapter 16. Effects of Prices for Local Network Interconnection on Market Structure in the US -- Chapter 17. Rationalizing Interconnection Arrangements in Competitive Communications Markets -- Chapter 18. Interconnection Policy Regimes and Global Strategic Alliance Activity in the Telecom Industry -- Chapter 19. Convergence Phenomenon and New Service Development in the Telecommunications Industry -- Chapter 20. What the World Trade Center Attack has Shown us About our Communications Networks -- Chapter 21. Network Resilience and its Regulatory Inhibitors -- Author Information -- Bibliographical Information -- Author Coordinates -- Index -- Last Page.

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