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The Internet and Hate Crime: Offline Spillovers from Online Access
Chan, Jason; Ghose, Anindya; Seamans, Robert - NET Institute - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905474
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Optimal Consumer Network Structure Formation under Network Effects: Seeds Controllability and Visibility
Dou, Yifan; Niculescu, Marius Florin; Wu, Dongjun - NET Institute - 2011
order of the customer valuation. Further, the seller’s optimal strategy is socially optimal. Under single-pricing and … price. In the case of random seeding with limited control, we identify an optimal strategy and conditions under which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905452
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e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities
Jiang, Yabing - NET Institute - 2012
The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905457
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Design of Consumer Review Systems and Product Pricing
Jiang, Yabing; Guo, Hong - NET Institute - 2012
Consumer review systems have become an important marketing communication tool through which consumers share and learn product information. Although there is abundant evidence that consumer reviews have significant impact on consumer purchasing decisions, the design of consumer review systems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905464
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Is Oprah Contagious? Identifying Demand Spillovers in Product Networks
Carmi, Eyal; OEstreicher-Singer, Gal; Sundararajan, Arun - NET Institute - 2010
We study the online contagion of exogenous demand shocks generated by book reviews featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show and published in the New York Times, through the co-purchase recommendation network on Amazon.com. These exogenous events may ripple through and affect the demand for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672210
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Diffusion and use of financial telecommunication: An empirical analysis of SWIFT adoption
Zachariadis, Markos - NET Institute - 2011
The purpose of the current work is to investigate how country-level and region-specific characteristics influence the adoption of a major financial telecommunication innovation and standard (SWIFT) in the banking sector. Using annual data on the diffusion and usage intensity of SWIFT between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905453
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YouTube Decade: Cultural Convergence in Recorded Music
George, Lisa M.; Peukert, Christian - NET Institute - 2014
The YouTube platform reduces fixed entry costs for local artists but also lowers the cost of access to international superstars. The net effect is an empirical question. We study the effect of YouTube on the market for music, focusing on converging tastes for international hits. We consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934841
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ICT Use and Labor: Firm-Level Evidence from Turkey
Atasoy, Hilal - NET Institute - 2011
Internet are used by firms. By using the rich survey data, I create an ICT index summarizing ICT adoption and use, along with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368495
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Competing technologies in the database management systems market
Kretschmer, Tobias - NET Institute - 2005
In this paper, we study the dynamics of the market for Database Management Systems (DBMS), which is commonly assumed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760641
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Negative Blogs, Positive Outcomes: When should Firms Permit Employees to Blog Honestly?
Aggarwal, Rohit; Gopal, Ram; Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh - NET Institute - 2007
Weblogs or blogs have recently received a lot of attention, especially in the business community, with a number of firms encouraging their employees to publish blogs to reach out and connect to a wider audience. It is beginning to be recognized that employee blogs can cast a firm in either a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760647