How might technology increase firm value? One method might be to facilitate more efficient use of internal capital. Another method might be to help the firm tap third party capital. This paper uses four unique data sets to measure growth in firm value based on adoption of Application Programming...

In this study we ask what drives the success or failure of various supply side antipiracy enforce-ment actions such as piracy website blocking. We do this in the context of three court-ordered events affecting consumers in the UK: We first study Internet Service Providers' blocking of 53 video...

Digital distraction, or the myopic use of technology at the expense of longer-term utility, is of growing importance as technology with the potential to distract becomes ubiquitous. We examine the consequences of digital distraction among drives in California by examining the relationship...

Can features extracted from high spatial resolution satellite imagery accurately estimate poverty and economic well-being? This paper investigates this question by extracting object and texture features from satellite images of Sri Lanka, which are used to estimate poverty rates and average log...