We study the spread of exogenous demand shocks generated by book reviews featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show and published in the New York Times through the online co-purchase recommendation network on Amazon.com. We leverage the co-purchase recommendation network on Amazon.com to determine...

The purpose of this document is to respond to selected questions for comment on the proposed framework in the FTC report 'Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers' (December 1st, 2010). Our responses are based on our ongoing...

We define an economic network as a linked set of entities, where links are created by actual realizations of shared economic outcomes between entities. Such aggregations, which include a wide variety of Web-based product networks, are becoming increasingly available for business use. We analyze...

Nonlinear usage-based pricing is applied extensively to price software products. Different from other products, software customers often cannot vary their required usage volume, a property we label local demand inelasticity. For instance, a client firm that needs a salesforce automation software...

This paper offers new empirical evidence about actual Airbnb usage patterns and how they vary across neighborhoods in New York City. We combine unique, census-tract level data from Airbnb with neighborhood asking rent data from Zillow and administrative, census, and social media data on...