Day archives: October 8th, 2012

Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem

“Between 2007 and 2011, a period when U.S. civilian employment was essentially flat, the number of jobs that rely on the U.S. ad-supported internet doubled to 5.1 million, according to Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem, a study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The ad-supported digital industry directly employs 2 million Americans, …

Subjects: E-Commerce

Study: Banking and Trading

Boot, Arnoud W. A. and Ratnovski, Lev, Banking and Trading (September 13, 2012). Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2012-85; Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2012-08. Available at SSRN. “We study the effects of a bank’s engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long-term oriented, with high implicit capital, …

Subjects: Government Documents

New on LLRX.com – Statistics Resources and Big Data on the Internet

Via LLRX.com: Statistics Resources and Big Data on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a best practices bibliography of sites and reliable sources focused on the hot topic of statistics and big data. These sources are representative of multiple publishers, national and global – government, academia, NGOs, and industry, many of which leverage …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management