Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2004 (in alphabetical order)

 

1.      Patrick Bajari, Duke University, and Jeremy T. Fox, University of Chicago, “Should Governments Auction Nationwide Spectrum Licenses? Estimating Bidder Valuations.”

 

2.      Paris Cleanthous, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Elena Krasnokutskaya, University of Pennsylvania, “Substitutability between Landline and Cellular Services.”

 

3.      Matthew T. Clements, University of Texas, and Hiroshi Ohashi, University of Tokyo, “Indirect Network Effects and the Product Cycle, Video Games in the U.S., 1994-2002.”

 

4.      Nataly Gantman and Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University, “Adware, Shareware, and Consumer Privacy”

 

5.      Aurora García-Gallego, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Nikolaos Georgantzís, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrência, Lisbon, Portugal, José C. Pernías-Cerrillo, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, “Risk Attitudes and Internet Search Engines: Theory and Experimental Evidence.”

 

6.      Mark Ginsburg, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, “Evaluating Networked Medical Information Credibility with the MEDQUAL System.”

 

7.      Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago, GSB, and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago, “How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry on Their Networks? The Case of the Major Airlines.”

 

8.      Gautam Gowrisankaran, John M.. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis and John Krainer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) “The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges: Evidence from a Structural Entry Model.”

 

9.      John Idicula, Netz Informatics, “Highly Interconnected Subsystems of the Stock Market.”

 

10.  Mark A. Jamison, University of Florida, “Effects of Industry Concentration on Quality Choices for Network Connectivity.”

 

11.  Mikhail Klimenko and Kamal Saggi, University of California, San Diego, “Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry Under Network Externalities.”

 

12.  Christopher R. Knittel, University of California, Davis, and Victor Stango, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Incompatibility and Consumer Demand: Evidence from ATMs."

 

13.  Tobias Kretschmer, and Katrin Muehlfeld, London School of Economics, “Co-opetition in Standard-Setting: The Case of the Compact Disc.”

 

14.  Mark McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Christopher Snyder, George Washington University, “The Economics of Open-Access Journals.”

 

15.  Eugenio J. Miravete, University of Pennsylvania, “The Doubtful Profitability of Foggy Pricing.”

 

16.  Yooki Park and Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley, “Technical Protection Measures and the Pricing of Digital Products.”

 

17.  Douglas Sicker and Tom Lookabaugh,  University of Colorado at Boulder, “A Model for Emergency Service of VoIP Through Certification and Labeling.”

 

18.  Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, “Incentives and Protocols for Self-Organizing Interest-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks.”

 

19.  Rahul Telang, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, “An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data services.”

 

20.  Tunay I. Tunca, G.S.B., Stanford University, “Information Aggregation and Liquidity in Electronic Markets for Procurement.”