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The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP

Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; McDevitt, Ryan C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

How much economic value did the diffusion of broadband create? We provide benchmark estimates for 1999 to 2006. We observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband accounting for $28 billion of this total. Depending on the estimate, households generated $20 to $22...

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Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access

Greenstein, Shane Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet access industry had undergone its first wave of entry...

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How did Location Affect Adoption of the Commercial Internet? Global Village, Urban Density, and Industry Composition

Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is...

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Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commerical Internet Use

Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Our study provides the first census of the dispersion of Internet technology to commercial establishments in the United States. We distinguish between participation, that is, use of the Internet because it is necessary for all business (e.g., email and browsing) and enhancement, that is,...

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The market value of patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms

Hall, Bronwyn H; Thoma, Grid L. D.; Torrisi, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

patents account for a rising share of total patents in the USPTO and EPO. Moreover, some scholars of innovation and …This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the private value of patents and R&D in European firms during the … period 1991-2004. We explore the relationship between firm's stock market value, patents, and "quality"-weighted patents …

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Technology Adoption In and Out of Major Urban Areas: When Do Internal Firm Resources Matter Most?

Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

How much do internal firm resources contribute to technology adoption in major urban locations, where the advantages from agglomeration are greatest? The authors address this question in the context of a business's decision to adopt advanced Internet technology. Drawing on a rich data set of...

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Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care

Rebitzer, James B.; Rege, Mari; Shepard, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We investigate whether information technology can help physicians more efficiently acquire new knowledge in a clinical environment characterized by information overload. Our analysis makes use of data from a randomized trial as well as a theoretical model of the influence that information...

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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access

Greenstein, Shane Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives cannot distill equivalent lessons from simply building a prototype or interviewing potential...

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Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services

Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; McDevitt, Ryan C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the United States between 2004 and 2009. We analyze over 1500 service contracts offered by DSL and cable providers in the United States. We employ a mix of matched-model methods and hedonic price index estimations to adjust for...

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Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption

Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made to an investment bank's employees and subsequent usage by these customers. The terrorist attacks of 2001 led potential customers...

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