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A survey and open questions ross anderson and tyler moore university of cambridge computer laboratory 15 jj thomson avenue, cambridge cb3 0fd, england. The economics of information has constituted a revolution in economics, upsetting longstanding presumptions, including the presumption of market efficiency. An information marketplace is different from other marketplaces because an information. It studies the effects of digitization and technology on industry. Information economics offers insights into the dynamics of information across networked systems like the internet. Information economics or the economics of information is a branch of microeconomic theory that studies how information and information systems affect an economy and economic decisions. Information asymmetry secrets and agents george akerlofs 1970 paper, the market for lemons, is a foundation stone of information economics. Guide for authors information economics and policy. The evolution of internet interconnection from hierarchy to mesh. Applied information economics aie is a powerful new method for quantifying the value of it investments.
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