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1990 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Economic Analysis of Institutions for Transactions of Information

Research Project

Project/Area Number 01530004
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 一般理論
Research InstitutionInstitute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

Principal Investigator

ONIKI Hajime  Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Professor, 社会経済研究所, 教授 (40107107)

Project Period (FY) 1989 – 1990
KeywordsInformation / Information Goods / Information Services / Intellectual Property / Patents / Industrial Property
Research Abstract

The objective of this project was to investigate from the economic standpoint the function of alternative institutions for transactions of information and information goods. Attention was drawn to the presence of the cost of copying information, the cost of protecting information from being copied, and the cost of protecting the right of information ownership (i. e., the intellectual property right). Ultimately, this project intends to contribute to improving existing institutions for transactions of information and to creating new institutions which can facilitate efficient production and transactions of information and information goods.
A model to explain the process of production, transaction, and usage of information and information goods was constructed. Three economic agents were considered : (i) the producer of information, who maximizes the difference of revenues from selling information he produced and the costs of information production and protection of information from bein … More g copied, given technology of information production and technology of copy prevention, (ii) the copier of information, who maximizes the difference of revenues from selling (copied) information and the costs of copying original information, and (iii) the user of information, who maximizes his utility obtained from purchasing and using original or secondary information. An equilibrium in the market in which information is transacted by these three agents was investigated.
Second, a theoretical framework of designing desirable institutions for information transactions (including the extent as well as the mode of protecting ownership of information) was investigated by itemizing factors affecting model analysis. In particular, the social benefit obtained from new information, the social cost of producing and reproducing (i. e., copying) information, the social cost of protecting information from being copied, the social cost of breaking information protection, and the need of incentives for information production were considered. Some of the problems which would arise in building such a model are identified. It is concluded that a general theoretical approach to this problem would be difficult ; practical methods such as Monte Carlo study would be more appropriate. Less

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 鬼木 甫: "「NTTの生産性ーー民営化後の経営体質は変わっかた?」" 『テレメディア』9(1989.9.10). 9. 49-53 (1989)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 鬼木 甫: "「新しい情報通信技術と産業連関分析」" 『イノベ-ジョン&1ー0 テクニ-ク』. 1(1). 30-39 (1989)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 鬼木 甫: "“Communication Infrastructure and SocioーEconomic Development"" Paper presented at the 6th Communication Forum,Japan Society of Information and Communication Research and Asian Mass communication Research and Information Center,Singapore,March 8,1990,pp.1〜20.1-20 (1990)

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  • [Publications] 鬼木 甫: "“On the Cost of Deintegrating Information Networks"" Paper read at the Eighth Meeting of International Telecommunications Society,Venice,Italy,March 26ー28,1990.To be published in C.Antonelli(ed.),The Econmics of Information Networks,NorthーHolland Publishing Co.(1990)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] M,Jussawalla and H.Oniki: “Modeling of Intellectual Property Rights,"a chapter in The Economics of Intellectual Property in a Without Frontiers,(forthcoming).,

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Oniki, Hajime: ""Communication Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Development. "" Paper presented at the 6th Communication Forum, Japan Society of Information and Communication Research and Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Center, Singapore. 1-20 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Oniki, Hajime.: ""On the Cost of Deintegrating Information Networks." Paper read at the Eighth of International Telecommunications Society, Venice, Italy. The Economics of Information Networks, North-Holland Publishing Co.(1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Jussawalla, M. and H. Oniki.: ""Modeling of Intellectual Property Rights, "" The Economics of Intellectual Property in a World Without Frontiers.

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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