Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies … for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of copyright caused by Internet file …-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many new opportunities to empirically analyze these questions by leveraging …

The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …

This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …

We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to … draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for cities. We document that larger markets have … content, suggesting the Internet is a complement to cities. Yet, holding local online content constant, people are less likely …

reduction in search costs on the Internet relative to the physical channel would cause both price and price dispersion to fall …

dataset on 1998-99 Internet shopping behavior and use of information intermediaries by over 30,000 households to examine … strategy and the evolution of market structure. If information weakens the pull of brand, then Internet retailing may grow less …

The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … comparisons online. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact that the rise of Internet comparison shopping sites has … group using the Internet reduces average insurance prices for the group by as much as 5 percent. Further evidence indicates …