The Workshop

The Berlin Workshop on Internet Economics constitutes a forum for researchers and pracitioners who are interested in and working on economic aspects of the Internet. The first workshop took place in October 1997 with world-wide participation by people working on Internet-related topics in industry, universities and government institutions. A selection of workshop papers has been published in various volumes of Netnomics and in book form.

The workshop took place in Berlin, Germany on May 25-26, 2001.

Program Committee

The programm committee consists of:

• Hans Amman, University of Amsterdam
• Andreas Bartels, Deutsche Telekom
• Dieter Elixmann, WIK
• Rishab Ghosh, International Institute of Infonomics
• Huub Meijers, MERIT, University of Maastricht
• Rudolf Müller, University of Maastricht
• Leo van Hove, Free University of Brussels
• Alwin Mahler, MCI WorldCom
• Louis Francois Pau, Ericsson
• Aloys Prinz, University of Münster
• Björn Rupp, Arthur D. Little
• Hans Schaffers, Telematica Instituut
• Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zuerich
• Andreas Taschner, Alcatel
• Thorsten Wichmann, Berlecon Research

Publication

Selected papers from the workshop have been published as a book and are available at Amazon.

The proceedings from the 3rd Internet Economics Workshop which took place in 2000 are also available at Amazon.

• Economics and the Internet II Proceedings from the 4th Internet Economics Workshop
  
• Economics and the Internet Proceedings from the 3rd Internet Economics Workshop
  

Program

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001

9.00 - 9.45 Registration

9.45 - 10.00 Welcome

• Thorsten Wichmann, Berlecon Research

10.00 - 11.00 Keynote I

• Karl-Peter Nöstler, Arthur D. Little Austria
  Critical success factors in M-Commerce
  [presentation]

11.00 - 13.00 Session I: Internet and the Real Economy

• Mikko Mustonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Copyleft - the Economics of Linux and other Open Source Software
  [abstract] [paper]

• Claudia Costa, Paul De Grauwe, University of Leuven, Belgium
  Monetary Policy in a Cashless Society
  [abstract] [paper]

• Irene Bertschek, Ulrich Kaiser ZEW Mannheim, Germany
  Productivity Effects of Organizational Change: Microeconometric Evidence
  [abstract] [paper]

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 16.30 Session II: Internet, E-Commerce and Taxes

• E.J. Levin, R.E. Wright, University of Stirling, UK
  An Optimal Internet Location Strategy for Markets with Different Tax Rates
  [abstract] [paper]

• Bijou Yang Lester, Drexel University, USA
  Is a Sales Tax a Good Idea for Internet Commerce?
  [abstract] [paper]

• Maarten C.W. Janssen, Rob van der Noll, Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands
  E-Commerce and Channel Substitution for Differentiated Products
  [abstract] [paper]

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.00 Keynote II

• Elmar Wolfstetter, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany
  Frequency Auctions in Germany and other European Countries
  [paper]

18.30 Dinner Reception

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2001

9.30 - 11.00 Session III: Internet Provider Pricing and Strategies I

• Peter Reichl, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria, Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, TIK, Switzerland
  Nil Nove Sub Sole? Why Internet Tariff Schemes Look Like as they do
  [abstract] [paper]
• Chris Kenyon, Giorgos Cheliotis, IBM Research, Switzerland
  European-style Forward Derivatives for Telecom Commodities
  [abstract] [paper]

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Session IV: Internet Provider Pricing and Strategies II

• Y. d'Halluin, P.A. Forsyth, K.R. Vetzal, University Of Waterloo, Canada
  Managing Capacity For Telecommunication Networks Under Uncertainty
  [abstract] [paper]
• Ioanna D. Constantiou, Costas Courcoubetis, Nikolaos A. Mylonopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  Information Asymmetry in Internet Connectivity Markets
  [abstract] [paper]

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 17.00 Session III: Special Issues in E-Commerce

• Hanno Beck, Aloys Prinz, University of Münster, Germany
  The Economics of Business-to-Business E-Commerce
  [abstract] [paper]

• Andrea Mangani, University of Siena, Italy
  Banner Economics: Optimal Advertising Choice
  [abstract] [paper]

• Björn Frank, Guntram Hepperle, University of Hohenheim, Germany
  The Internet's Impact on the Market for Antiquarian Books: Some Unexpected Empirical Results
  [abstract] [paper]

Contact & Information

The workshop is organized by Berlecon Research.

For any further information about this workshop, please contact Berlecon Research by e-mail, by phone (+49 30 285296-0) or by fax (+49 30 285296-29).

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