We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … adjacent market. The present scheme for awarding patents cannot judge when the issuance of a patent will lead to the … appropriate balance between innovation and efficiency. Where a patent holder’s invention uses an interface with adjacent products …

Understanding the process of software adoption is of paramount importance to software start-ups. We study a …

the internet. Customers frequently undergo a staggered adoption process that may involve sign-up, experimentation, trial …, and substantial usage until they fully embrace internet services. We ask whether delays in moving through the initial …

How did the diffusion of the Internet affect performance and product quality in the airline industry? We argue that the … growth patterns in Internet access, we find a positive relationship between Internet access and scheduled flight times. The …. We also find that despite longer scheduled flight times, flight delays increased as passengers gained Internet access …

) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality …

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …

The Internet has had profound effects on society, both positive and negative. In this paper we examine the effect of … the Internet on a negative spillover: hate crime. In order to better understand the link, we study the extent to which …, suggesting that the direct effect of the Internet on hate crime is primarily due to a heightening of pre-existing propensities to …

How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to … Internet penetration at the county-year level from 2000 – 2008. We document a positive relationship between Internet … approach that uses lightning strikes to instrument for Internet penetration. Thus, contrary to a commonly held belief that the …