Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2010 (in alphabetical order)

1. Ramon Casadesus-Masanel and Hanna Halaburda, Harvard Business School, “When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-04.

2. Jiawei Chen, University of California-Irvine, “Product Compatibility in Network Industries with Switching Costs,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-23.

3. Chris Dellarocas, Boston University, Zsolt Katona, University of California, Berkeley and William Rand, University of Maryland, “Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-13.

4. Ying Fan, University of Michigan and Mo Xiao, University of Arizona, “Estimating the Option Value of Waiting: A Dynamic Entry Game of the U.S. Local Telephone Competition,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-14.

5. Lapo Filistrucchi and Tobias Klein, Tilburg University, “Merger Simulation in a Two-Sided Market: The Case of the Dutch Daily Newspapers,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-15.

6. Ricard Gil, University of California, Santa Cruz and Frédèric Warzynski, Aarhus School of Business, “Vertical Integration, Exclusivity and Game Sales Performance in the US Video Game Industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-06.

7. Avi Goldfarb, Ajay Agrawal and Christian Catalini, University of Toronto, “Entrepreneurial Finance and the Flat-World Hypothesis: Evidence from Crowd-Funding Entrepreneurs in the Arts,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-08.

8. Jan Krämer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, “Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-09.

9. Mingfeng Lin and Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland, “An Empirical Study of Online Software Outsourcing: Signals under Different Contract Regimes,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-22.

10. Yair Livne and Benjamin Golub, Stanford University, “Strategic Random Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-21.

11. Sjaak Hurkens, Institute for Economic Analysis, Ángel L. López, IESE Business School, “Mobile Termination and Consumer Expectations under the Receiver-Pays Regime,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-12.

12. Angelo Mele, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “A Structural Model of Segregation in Social Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-16.

1. David Miller, Timothy Keller and Xiahua Wei, University of California, San Diego, “A Steady State Approach to a Network Externality Market With Switching Costs,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-19.

2. Bryony Reich, University of Cambridge, “Identity, Community and Segregation,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-10.

3. Robert Seamans, Stern School of Business, NYU and Feng Zhu, “Technology Shocks in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-11.

4. Scott Shriver, Stanford University, “Network Effects in Alternative Fuel Adoption: Empirical Analysis of the Market for Ethanol,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-20.

5. Eyal Carmi, Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Tel-Aviv University, and Arun Sundararajan, NYU Stern School of Business, “Spreading the Oprah Effect: Identification of Cross- Is Oprah Contagious? Identifying Demand Spillovers in Product Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-18.

6. Thomas Tangeras, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, “Network Competition: Workhorse Resurrection,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-05.

7. Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management, “Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, and Privacy Controls,” NET Institute Working Paper #10-07.

8. Alexander White, Harvard University and E. Glen Weyl, Harvard University Society of Fellows & Toulouse School of Economics, Imperfect Platform Competition: A General Framework, NET Institute Working Paper #10-17.