Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2006 (in alphabetical order)

 

1.                  Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Fotios C. Harmantzis, Stevens Institute of Technology,  Sotiris Ioannidis, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Manaf Zghaibeh, Stevens Institute of Technology, “On the Impact of Practical P2P Incentive Mechanisms on User Behavior,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-14.

 

2.                  Yannis Bakos, Stern School of Business, NYU and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, School of Law, NYU, “Online Contracts and Consumer Behavior.”

 

3.                  Edmond Baranes, University of Montpellier, “Bundling and Collusion in Communications Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-17.

 

4.                  L. Jean Camp, School of Informatics, Indiana University, “When Proof of Work Works,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-18.

 

5.                  Juan D. Carrillo, USC and CEPR, and Guofu Tan, USC, “Platform Competition: the Role of Complementors and Multi-homing,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-30.

 

1.                  Albert Creus Mir, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, “Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-23.

 

2.                  Yongmin Chen and Chuan He, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Paid Placement: Advertising and Search on the Internet,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-02.

 

3.                  Benjamin Chiao and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, “Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-20.

 

4.                  Menzie D. Chinn, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and NBER, and Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz and IZA, “ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-03.

 

5.                  Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University, “Tying in Two-Sided Markets with Multi-Homing,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-04.

 

6.                  Kenneth S. Corts, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and Mara Lederman, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, “Software Exclusivity and Indirect Network Effects in the U.S. Home Video Game Industry.”

 

7.                  Chris Forman, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Anindya Ghose, Stern School of Business, NYU, Avi Goldfarb, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, “Geography and Electronic Commerce: Measuring Convenience, Selection, and Price,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-15.

 

8.                  Jeremy T. Fox, University of Chicago, and Hector Perez, University of Chicago, Mobile Phone Mergers and Market Shares,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-16.

 

9.                  Anindya Ghose, Stern School of Business, NYU, and Bin Gu, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, “Search Costs and Menu Costs in Electronic Markets: Theory and Evidence,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-19.

 

10.              Michal Grajek, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Humboldt University, and Tobias Kretschmer, London School of Economics and CEP, “Usage and Diffusion of Cellular Telephony, 1998-2004,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-21.

 

11.              Lukasz Grzybowski, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrencia, Portugal, “Simulation of Merger in Mobile Telephony in Portugal,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-22.

 

12.              Fotios C. Harmantzis, Stevens Institute of Technology, Lenos Trigeorgis, University of Cyprus and Columbia University, Venkata Praveen Tanguturi, Stevens Institute of Technology, “Flexible Investment Decisions in the Telecommunications Industry: Case Applications using Real Options,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-06.

 

13.              Seung-Hyun Hong, University of Illinois, and Leonardo Rezende, University of Illinois, “Network Effects, Switching Costs, and Underlying Preferences in Operating Systems for Servers: A Case of Linux vs. Windows,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-12.

 

14.              Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and Asis Martinez-Jerez, Harvard Business School, “The Geography E-Commerce: Evidence from eBay and MercadoLibre,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-09.

 

15.              Ke-Wei Huang and Arun Sundararajan, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-11.

 

16.              Jake Kendall and Nirvikar Singh, UC Santa Cruz, “Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-05.

 

17.              Jiyoung Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A Structural Analysis for Consumers’ Dynamic Switching Decision in the Cellular Service Industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-24.

 

18.              Christopher R. Knittel, University of California, Davis, and Victor Stango, Tuck School, Dartmouth, “Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-08.

 

19.              Anja Lambrecht, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Katja Seim, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Adoption and Usage of Complementary Online and Offline Services: Retail Banking,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-27.

 

20.              Ravi Mantena, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, School of Business, University of Connecticut, and Siva Viswanathan, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, “Exclusive Licensing in Complementary Network Industries.”

 

21.              Eugenio J. Miravete, University of Pennsylvania & CEPR, “Competing with Tariff Menus.”

 

22.              Gal Oestreicher-Singer and Arun Sundararajan, Stern School of Business, NYU, “The Network Structure of E-Commerce Demand: Degrees of Separation, Complementarity and Assortative Matching.”

 

23.              Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrência, Portugal, and Tiago Ribeiro, Indera, “Impact on Broadband of the Dual Ownership of Telephone and Cable Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-10.

 

24.              James E. Prieger and Wei-Min Hu, UC Davis, “An Empirical Analysis of Indirect Network Effects in the Home Video Game Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-25.

 

25.              Evan Rawley, UC Berkeley, “Mobile Information Technology Networks, Productivity and the Boundary of the Firm:  Evidence from Taxicab Fleets,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-28.

 

26.              Abraham Seidmann, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, and Jennifer Zhang, College of Business Administration, University of Toledo, “Selling and Leasing Software with Network Externality,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-13.

 

27.              Anirban Sengupta and Steven Wiggins, Texas A&M University, “Airline Pricing, Price Dispersion and Ticket Characteristics On and Off the Internet,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-07.

 

28.              Janice Tsai, Lorrie Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti, Christina Fong, Carnegie-Mellon University, “What’s It To You? A Survey of Online Privacy Concerns and Risks,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-29.

 

29.              Stephen Ryan and Catherine Tucker, MIT, “Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Network Technology Adoption,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-26.