Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2012

 

1.      Santiago R. Balseiro, Columbia University, Omar Besbes, Columbia University, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Columbia University, “Auctions for Online Display Advertising Exchanges: Approximations and Design,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-11.

 

2.      Joan Calzada, Universitat de Barcelona, Guillem Ordonez, Universitat de Barcelona, “Competition in the News Industry: Fighting Aggregators with Versions and Links,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-22.

 

3.      Jason Chan, New York University, Anindya Ghose, New York University, “Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on the Outbreak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-07.

 

4.      Jianqing Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas, Ming Fan, University of Washington, Mingzhi Li, Tsinghua University, “Advertising versus Brokerage Model for Online Trading Platforms,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-12.

 

5.      Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado, Tianle Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Group Coupons: Interpersonal Bundling on the Internet,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-09.

 

6.      Evdokia Dritsa, Athens University of Economics and Business, Eleftherios Zacharias, Athens University of Economics and Business, “Price Competition in a Duopoly Characterized by Positional Effects,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-21.

 

7.      Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland, Anandasivam Gopal, University of Maryland, Ali Pilehvar, University of Maryland, “Reference Prices and Bidder Heterogeneity in Secondary Market ONline B2B,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-06.

 

8.      Aurora Garcia-Gallego, Universitat Jaume I, Nikolaos Georgantzis, Universidad de Granada, Gerardo Sabater-Grande, Universitat Jaume I, “Service Provision on a Railway Network: A laboratory Experiment,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-14.

 

9.      Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University, Mitsukuni Nishida, Johns Hopkins University, “Does Regulation Drive Competition? Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-05.

 

10.  Lapo Filistrucchi, Tilburg University, Luigi Luini, University of Siena, Andrea Mangani, University of Pisa, “Banning Ads from Prime-Time State Television: Lessons from France,” NET Institute Working Paper 12-23.

 

11.  Andrey Fradkin, Stanford University, “Do Online Marketplaces Become More Efficient Over Time?, NET Institute Working Paper #12-24.

 

12.  Kory M. Garner, Purdue University, “Defending a Star: Coordinating the Defense of a Network,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-25.

 

13.  Hanna Halaburda, Harvard Business School, Yaron Yehezkel, Tel-Aviv University, “The Role of Coordination Bias in Platform Competition,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-03.

 

14.  Il-Horn Hann, University of Maryland, Byungwan Koh, University of Calgary, Marius F. Niculescu, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Giving the Old Platform a New Lease on LIfe: The Unintended Effect of Backward Compatibility on Platform Adoption Decisions,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-17.

 

15.  Bar Ifrach, Stanford University, Costis Maglaras, Columbia University, Marco Scarsini, LUISS, “Monopoly Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-01.

 

16.  Doh-Shin Jeon, Toulouse School of Economics, Nikrooz Nasr Esfahani, Toulouse School of Economics, “News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-20.

 

17.  Yabing Jiang, Florida Gulf Coast University, Hong Guo, University of Notre Dame, “Design of Consumer Review Systems and Product Pricing,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-10.

 

18.  Yabing Jiang, Florida Gulf Coast University, “e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-19.

 

19.  Byung-Cheol Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jeongsik Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hyunwoo Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Two-Sided Platform Competition in the Online Daily Deals Promotion Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-04.

 

20.  Nicola Lacetera, Johns Hopkins University, Mario Macis, Johns Hopkins University, Angelo Mele, Johns Hopkins University, “Viral Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment of Social Contagion on On-Line Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-16.

 

21.  Mingfeng Lin, University of Arizona, Paulo Goes, University of Arizona, “The Appeal of Third-Party Certifications: Information Unraveling in Natural Experiments,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-02.

 

22.  Oksana Loginova, University of Missouri-Columbia, X. Henry Wang, University of Missouri-Columbia, Chenhang Zeng, Shandong University, “Learning in Advance Selling with Heterogeneous Consumers,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-08.

 

23.  Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute, Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Decentralized Exchange,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-18.

 

24.  Laura Nurski, University of Leuven, “Net Neutrality, Foreclosure and the Fast Lane: An Empirical Study of the UK,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-13.

 

25.  Nikita Roketskiy, University College London, “Farsightedly Stable Matchings,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-26.

 

26.  Michael Sinkinson, University of Pennsylvania, “The Determinants of Supply and Demand for Mobile Applications, NET Institute Working Paper #12-27.

 

27.  Monic Sun, Stanford University, Xiaoquan Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Feng Zhu, University of Southern California, “To Belong or to Be Different? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China,” NET Institute Working Paper #12-15.