NET Institute

Working Papers Series

Last Updated: 12/22/2007

1. Fernando Beltran, Universidad de Los Andes, “Effects of ISP Interconnection Agreements on Internet Competition: The Case of the Network Access Point as a Cooperative Agreement for Internet Traffic Exchange,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-1.

2. Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University, “Antitrust Analysis of Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets: Implications for Pricing, Innovation, and Compatibility Choice,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-2.

3. Chris Forman, Carnegie Mellon University, and Pei-yu Chen, Carnegie Mellon University “Network Effects and Switching Costs In the Market for Routers and Switches,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-3.

4. Martha Garcia-Murillo, Syracuse University, “Assessing The Impact Of Internet Telephony On The Deployment Of Telecommunications Infrastructure,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-4.

5. David Gilo, Tel Aviv University, and Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University, “Network Interconnection with Competitive Transit,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-5.

6. Gautam Gowrisankaran, Washington University, “Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry.” NET Institute Working Paper #03-6.

7. Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan University, “Excessive(?) Entry of National Telecom Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-7.

8. Jay P. Kesan, University of Illinois, and Andres A. Gallo, University of Illinois, “Internet Regulation: The Political Economy of ICANN and the Shaping of New Regulatory Regimes for the Internet.“ NET Institute Working Paper #03-8.

9. Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University, “The Delft UMTS Testbed and End-user Security features,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-9.

10. Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University, “End-user Security in Mobile Telecommunications: Policy Perspectives and a Research Agenda.” NET Institute Working Paper #03-10.

11. Marc Rysman, Boston University, “Adoption Delay in a Standards War,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-11.

12. Marc Rysman, Boston University, “Differentiation Across Standards and Adoption Failure in 56K Modems,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-12.

13. Katja Seim, Stanford University, and V. Brian Viard, Stanford University, “The Effect Of Entry And Market Structure On Cellular Pricing Tactics,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-13.

14. Ananth Srinivasan, University of Auckland, and David Sundaram, University of Auckland, “Orchestrating Web Services For Networked Enterprise Collaboration,” NET Institute Working Paper #03-14.

15. 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,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-01.

16. Nataly Gantman, Tel Aviv University, and Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University, “Adware, Shareware, and Consumer Privacy,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-02.

17. Aurora García-Gallego, Universitat Jaume I, Nikolaos Georgantzís, Universitat Jaume I, Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrência, and José C. Pernías-Cerrillo, Universitat Jaume I, “Risk Attitudes and Internet Search Engines: Theory and Experimental Evidence,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-03.

18. Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago, and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago, “How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry on Their Networks? The Case of the Major Airlines,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-04.

19. Mikhail Klimenko Georgia Institute of Technology and Kamal Saggi, Southern Methodist University “Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry Under Network Externalities,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-05.

20. Christopher R. Knittel, U.C. Davis, and Victor Stango, Dartmouth College, “Incompatibility and Consumer Demand: Evidence from ATMs,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-06.

21. Eugenio J. Miravete, University of Pennsylvania, “The Doubtful Profitability of Foggy Pricing,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-07.

22. Mark A. Jamison, University of Florida, “Effects of Industry Concentration on Quality Choices for Network Connectivity,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-08.

23. Yooki Park, U.C. Berkeley, and Suzanne Scotchmer, U.C. Berkeley, “Technical Protection Measures and the Pricing of Digital Products,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-09.

24. Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University, “An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data Services,” NET Institute Working paper #04-10.

25. Tunay I. Tunca, Stanford University, “Information Aggregation and Liquidity in Electronic Markets for Procurement,“ NET Institute Working Paper #04-11.

26. Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, and Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University, “Incentives and Protocols for Self-Organizing Interest-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-12.

27. Mark Ginsburg, University of Arizona, “Evaluating Networked Medical Information Credibility with the MEDQUAL System,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-13.

28. Tobias Kretschmer, London School of Economics, and Katrin Muehlfeld, London School of Economics, “Co-opetition in Standard-Setting: The Case of the Compact Disc,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-14.

29. Patrick Bajari, Duke University, and Jeremy T. Fox, University of Chicago, “Should Governments Auction Nationwide Spectrum Licenses? Estimating Bidder Valuations,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-15.

30. 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,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-16.

31. John Idicula, Netz Informatics, “Highly Interconnected Subsystems of the Stock Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-17.

32. Mark McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Christopher Snyder, George Washington University, “The Economics of Open-Access Journals,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-18.

33. Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Tom Lookabaugh, University of Colorado at Boulder, “A Model for Emergency Service of VoIP Through Certification and Labeling,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-19.

34. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-20.

35. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and V. Brian Viard, “Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-21.

36. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU and Evangelos Katsamakas, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-22.

37. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “The Economics of the Internet Backbone,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-23.

38. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Competition Policy In Network Industries: An Introduction,” NET Institute Working Paper #04-24.

39. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “The Incentive for Vertical Integration,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-01.

40. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University, “Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms, and the implications for the software industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-02.

41. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University, “Linux vs. Windows, A Comparison of Innovation Incentives and a Case Study,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-03.

42. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and V. Brian Viard, Stanford University, “Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-04.

43. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Vertical Leverage and the Sacrifice Principle: Why the Supreme Court Got Trinko Wrong,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-05.

44. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University, “Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms, and the implications for the software industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-06.

45. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University, “Linux vs. Windows: A comparison of application and platform innovation incentives for open source and proprietary software platforms,“ NET Institute Working Paper #05-07.

46. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, Katja Seim, Stanford University, and V. Brian Viard, Stanford University, Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service, NET Institute Working Paper #05-08.

47. Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen, Michigan State University, and Jae Nahm, HKUST, Hong Kong “Strategic Product Pre-announcements in Markets with Network Effects,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-09.

48. Jose Canals-Cerda, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Congestion Pricing in an Internet Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-10.

49. Miguel Angel Campo-Rembado, Stern School of Business, NYU, “The First Deal Might Be The Last: Building Long Term Relationships In The Venture Capital Community,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-11.

50. Aurora García-Gallego, Universitat Jaume I, Nikolaos Georgantzís, Universitat Jaume I, Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrência, and José C. Pernías-Cerrillo, LINEEX, Universitat de Valencia, “Competing Against Simulated Equilibrium Price Dispersions: An Experiment On Internet-Assisted Search Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-12.

51. Jeremy T. Fox, University of Chicago, “Consolidation in the Wireless Phone Industry,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-13.

52. Anindya Ghose and Arun Sundararajan, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Versioning and Quality Distortion in Software? Evidence from E-Commerce Panel Data,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-14.

53. David Gabel, Queens College, and Carolyn Gideon, Tufts University, “Retail Prices and Facility-Based Entry into the Telecommunications Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-15.

54. Yannis M. Ioannides, Tufts University and Adriaan R. Soetevent, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, “Social Networking and Individual Outcomes: Individual Decisions and Market Context,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-16.

55. Tobias Kretschmer, London School of Economics, “Competing Technologies in the Database Management Systems Market,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-17.

56. Prasenjit Mitra, Sandeep Purao, John W. Bagby, Karthikeyan Umapathy, and Sharoda Paul, Pennsylvania State University, “An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-18.

57. Anindya Ghose, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Used Good Trade Patterns: A Cross-Country Comparison of Electronic Secondary Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-19.

58. Matthew Nagler, Lehman College, The City University of New York, “Adverse Network Effects, Moral Hazard, and the Case of Sport-Utility Vehicles,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-20.

59. Kai Suelzle, Ifo Institute for Economic Research (University of Munich) & Dresden University of Technology, “Stable and Efficient Electronic Business Networks: Key Players and the Dilemma of Peripheral Firms,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-21.

60. Marc Rysman, Boston University, and Tim Simcoe, University of Toronto, “Patents and the Performance of Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-22.

61. Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University, “The Incentive To Participate In Open Source Projects: A Signaling Approach,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-23.

62. Onsel Emre, University of Chicago, Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER, and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER, “E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-24.

63. Michael R. Ward, University of Texas at Arlington, “Rationalizing the E-Rate: The Effects of Subsidizing IT in Education,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-25.

64. Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ram D. Gopal, Kaveepan Lertwachara, James R. Marsden, School of Business, University of Connecticut, and Rahul Telang, H John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, “The Effect of P2P File Sharing on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking Charts,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-26.

65. Animesh Animesh, Vandana Ramachandran, and Siva Viswanathan, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, “Quality uncertainty and adverse selection in sponsored search markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-27.

66. Martin Gaynor, Yunfeng Shi, Rahul Telang, and William Vogt, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, “Cell Phone Demand and Consumer Learning – An Empirical Analysis,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-28.

67. Evangelos Katsamakas, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, and Mingdi Xin, Stern School of Business, New York University, “An economic analysis of enterprise adoption of open source software,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-29.

68. Barak Y. Orbach, Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, “Piggybackers and freeloaders: platform economics and indirect liability for copyright infringement,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-30.

69. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and V. Brian Viard, “Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-31.

70. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Hit and Miss: Leverage, Sacrifice, and Refusal to Deal in the Supreme Court Decision in Trinko,” NET Institute Working Paper #05-32.

71. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Public Policy in Network Industries,” NET Institute Working Paper #06-01.

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

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

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

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

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

77. 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.

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

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

80. 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.

81. 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.

82. 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.

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

84. 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.

85. 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.

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

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

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

89. 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.

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

91. 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.

92. 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.

93. 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.

94. 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.

95. James E. Prieger, Pepperdine University, 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.

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

97. 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.

98. 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.

99. 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.

100. 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.

101. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “The Economics of the Internet,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-01.

102. Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas at Austin, “Competing with Menus of Tariff Options,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-02.

103. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Net Neutrality,” Non-Discrimination and Digital Distribution of Content Through the Internet“ NET Institute Working Paper #07-03.

104. 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,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-04.

105. Seung-Hyun Hong University of Illinois, and Leonardo Rezende, University of Illinois, “Lock-In and Unobserved Preferences in Server Operating System Adoption: A Case of Linux vs. Windows,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-05.

106. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, “Nonbanks in the Payments System: Vertical Integration Issues,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-06.

107. Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU, and William N. Hebert, Calvo & Clark LLP, “Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets,” NET Institute Working Paper #07-07.

108. 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.

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