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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley Opportunities and Opportunity Costs

Fairlie, Robert; Chatterji, Aaron - NET Institute - 2008

market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching monthly files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is … used to provide the first test of the hypothesis that entrepreneurship rates were high in Silicon Valley during the … on only hi-tech industries. Estimates from the matched CPS data indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower …

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Dynamic Strategies for Successful Online Crowdfunding

Li, Zhuoxin; Duan, Jason A. - NET Institute - 2014

Crowdfunding is a fast emerging internet fundraising mechanism for soliciting capital from the crowd to support entrepreneurial ventures. This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of investorsâ€™ backing behaviors in the presence of network externalities and a finite time window. The...

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System Size, Lock-in and Network Effects for Patient Records

Tucker, Catherine; Miller, Amalia - NET Institute - 2009

We examine empirically whether the size of a firm using a network affects the scope of its network usage, and consequently network effects and lock-in within the network. We use the example of hospital information exchange. We find that hospitals in larger hospital systems are more likely to...

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Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records

Tucker, Catherine; Miller, Amalia - NET Institute - 2007

Some policymakers argue that consumers need legal protection of their privacy before they adopt interactive technologies. Others contend that privacy regulations impose costs that deter adoption. We contribute to this growing debate by quantifying the effect of state privacy regulation on the...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations in Network Industries

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tag, Joacim - NET Institute - 2008

In this paper, we study entrepreneurial innovations in an industry characterized by network effects. We show that the presence of network externalities tends to make the entrepreneur prefer sale to entry. Moreover, we also show that the incentive to innovate for entry decreases when network...

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Advertising versus Brokerage Model for Online Trading Platforms

Chen, Jianqing; Fan, Ming; Li, Mingzhi - NET Institute - 2012

The two leading online consumer-to-consumer platforms use very different revenue models: eBay.com in the United States uses a brokerage model in which sellers pay eBay on a transaction basis, whereas Taobao.com in China uses an advertising model in which sellers can use basic platform service...

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Broadband User Discrimination and the Net Neutrality Debate

Guo, Hong; Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti; Cheng, Hsing K. - NET Institute - 2009

The net neutrality debate has brought out economic rationale for and against a variety of proposals of the broadband service providers to differentiate between different classes of users. Broadband users are characterized by the differing amounts of content they request online, as well as their...

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Competition Policy In Network Industries: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2004

We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect...

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Public Policy in Network Industries

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2006

This paper discusses how antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. In assessing the application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect...

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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - NET Institute - 2013

We study how net neutrality regulations affect high-bandwidth content providers’ investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With a limited network capacity, the prioritized delivery services are complements to...

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