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Measuring the Effects of Advertising : The Digital Frontier

Lewis, Randall - 2013

Online advertising offers unprecedented opportunities for measurement. A host of new metrics, clicks being the leading example, have become widespread in advertising science. New data and experimentation platforms open the door for firms and researchers to measure true causal effects of...

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New Economic Forces Behind the Value Distribution of Innovation

Bresnahan, Timothy F.; Greenstein, Shane M.; Yin, Pai-Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Advances in a general-purpose technology (GPT) enable many firms to invent complementary inventions, or co-inventions, making the GPT more valuable. This study examines the empirical implications of a straightforward model in which firms choose either incremental or novel co-invention....

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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George - 2016

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders - 2015

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …

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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

Dinerstein, Michael - 2014

Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...

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Remix Rights and Negotiations Over the Use of Copy-Protected Works

Gans, Joshua S. - 2014

This paper examines an environment where original content can be remixed by follow-on creators. The modelling innovation is to assume that original content creators and remixers can negotiate over the 'amount' of original content that is used by the follow-on creator in the shadow of various...

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Weak Versus Strong Net Neutrality

Gans, Joshua S. - 2014

This paper provides a framework to classify and evaluate the impact of net neutrality regulations on the allocation of consumer attention and the distribution of surplus between consumers, ISPs and content providers. While the model provided largely nests other contributions in the literature,...

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Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

Forman, Chris - 2014

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of … the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in internet adoption to those … that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting between leaders and laggards in internet adoption …

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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially …

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Information Lost (Apologies to Milton)

Mann, Catherine L. - 2013

Vast amounts of information result from business and consumer search, communication, and transactions. All this information can enhance market efficiency and consumer surplus as firms tailor products to buyers. But, there is increased risk of information loss. What issues should be on the...

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