Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2007 (in alphabetical order)

1. Rohit Aggarwal, Ram Gopal, and Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, University of Connecticut, “Negative Blogs, Positive Outcomes: When Should Firms Permit Employees to Blog Honestly?” NET Institute Working Paper #07-32.

2. Shahzad Ansari, Erasmus University, and Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State University, “Inter-Generational Transitions in Technological Ecosystems: The Case of Mobile Telephony,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-20.

3. Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Stern School of Business, New York University, “Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-36.

4. Itai Ater, Stanford University, “Congestion and Market Structure in the Airline Industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-28.

5. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard Business School, Barry Nalebuff, SOM Yale University, and David Yoffie, Harvard Business School, “Competing Complements,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-44.

6. Huseyin Cavusoglu, University of Texas at Dallas and Hasan Cavusoglu, University of British Columbia, “Assessing the Value of Network Security Technologies,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-19.

7. Yongmin Chen and Scott J. Savage, University of Colorado at Boulder, “The Effects Of Competition On The Price For Cable Modem Internet Access,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-13.

8. Eric Chiang, Florida Atlantic University and Janice Hauge, University of North Texas, “Funding Universal Service: The Effect of Telecommunications Subsidy Programs on Competition and Retail Prices,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-08.

9. Aitor Ciarreta, Universitat de Pais Vasco, Enrique Fatas, Universitat de Valencia, Nikolaos Georgantzis, Universitat Jaume I, and Carlos Gutiérrez Hita, Universitat Miguel Hernandez, “Vertical Separation vs. Independent Entry in the Spanish Electricity Network: An Experimental Approach,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-31.

10. Daniel Fleder and Kartik Hosanagar, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Blockbuster Culture’s Next Rise or Fall: The Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-10.

11. Laura Forlano, Columbia University, “Search and the city: Follow the wireless user.”

12. Neil Gandal and Chaim Fershtman, Tel Aviv University, “Microstructure of collaboration: The network of open source software.”

13. Anindya Ghose and Sha Yang, Stern School of Business, NYU, “An Empirical Analysis of Search Engine Advertising: Sponsored Search and Cross-Selling in Electronic Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-35.

14. Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and Catherine Tucker, MIT, “Search Engine Advertising: Pricing Ads to Context,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-23.

15. Lukasz Grzybowski, Competition Commission, UK, Chiraz Karamti, Telecom Paris – ENST, “Competition in Mobile Telephony in France and Germany,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-24.

16. Lukasz Grzybowski, Competition Commission, UK and Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrencia, Portugal, “Subscription Choices and Switching Costs in Mobile Telephony,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-12.

17. Bin Gu, University of Texas, Yun Huang, University of Texas, Wenjing Duan, George Washington University and Andrew Whinston, University of Texas, “Online Peer-to-peer Communities: An Empirical Investigation of a Music Sharing Network as a Dynamic Two-sided Network,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-42.

18. Andres Hervas-Drane, Harvard University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, “Word of Mouth and Recommender Systems: A Theory of the Long Tail,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-41.

19. Doh-Shin Jeon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Sjaak Hurkens, Institute for Economic Analysis, “A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing: Two-Part Tariffs,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-11.

20. Doh-Shin Jeon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Domenico Menicucci, University of Florence, “Bundling and Competition for Slots,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-15.

21. Ramesh Johari, Stanford University, and Gabriel Weintraub, Columbia Business School, “Competition in Prices and Service Level Guarantees,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-21.

22. P.D. Kaushik, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, Jake Kendall, Nirvikar Singh, Kristen Williams, UC Santa Cruz, and Yan Zhou, California State University, Sacramento, “Network Economics and the Digital Divide in Rural India,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-29.

23. P.D. Kaushik, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, Jake Kendall, Nirvikar Singh, Kristen Williams, UC Santa Cruz, and Yan Zhou, California State University, Sacramento, “Network Economics and the Digital Divide in Rural South Asia,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-30.

24. Byungcheol Kim and Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University, “Customer Information Sharing: Strategic Incentives and New Implications,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-27.

25. Robin S. Lee, Harvard Business School, “Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-39.

26. Jinyang Li and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, New York University, “Building Low-Cost, High-Performance Wireless Mesh Networks.”

27. Charles Z. Liu, University of Pittsburgh, Chris Kemerer, University of Pittsburgh, and Michael D. Smith, Carnegie-Mellon University, “Standards Competition In The Presence Of Digital Conversion Technology: An Empirical Analysis Of The Flash Memory Card Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-17.

28. Qihong Liu, University of Oklahoma, and Konstantinos Serfes, Drexel University, “Price Discrimination in Two-Sided Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-25.

29. Amalia Miller, University of Virginia, and Catherine Tucker, MIT, “Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-16.

30. Vandana Ramachandran, Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland, and Sanjay Gosain, Capital Group, CA, “The Impact of Online Information on the Purchase of Certified Used Cars,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-37.

31. Ricardo Ribeiro, London School of Economics and João Vareda, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, “Crowding Out or Complementarity in the Telecommunications Market?” NET Institute Working Paper #07-33.

32. Anirban Sengupta, Texas A&M, “Do Internet Converge Prices to the ‘Law of One Price’? Evidence from Transaction Data for Airline Tickets,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-26.

33. Michael Ward, University of Texas at Arlington, “Video Games and Violent Crime,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-18.

34. Mo Xiao, University of Arizona and Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University, “Entry Threat and Entry Deterrence: The Timing of Broadband Rollout,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-09.

35. Jennifer Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington, and Bing Jing, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and “The Impacts of Shopbots on Online Consumer Search,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-34.

36. Michael Zhang, HKUST Business School, and Feng Zhu, Harvard University, “Group Size and Incentive to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-22.