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Shane Mitchell Greenstein

Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy

Management & Strategy Department

1989, Ph.D. Stanford University, Department of Economics; 1983, B.A. University of California at Berkeley, Department of Economics

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1997 -present.

Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
Associate Professor, August 1996 - 1997
Assistant Professor, January, 1990 - July, 1996.

National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Associate, 1991 - present.

Northwestern University
Center for the Study of Industrial Organization
Institute for Policy Research

 

Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets (2004) Written by Shane Greenstein

 
Courses / Topics Taught
  Management of Technology
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
  2000-01, National Science Foundation, Bureau of Economics Analysis, "Measuring new Industries: Internet Service Providers"
1997-98 Grant by the Council on Library Resources for the project titled "American off and on line: The Structure of the Internet Service Provider Industry"
1995-97, Division of Social Science, Infrastructure Initiative, National Science Foundation.
1992-95, Research Initiation Award, The Social Impact of Technical Change, National Science Foundation
 

Prof. Greenstein coedited Communications Policy in Transition: the Internet and Beyond (MIT Press, 2001)

   
Current Projects
  Standards and public policy
The economic geography of Internet Infrastructure in the US.
Contracting and pricing of Communications infrastructure firms
   
Representative Publications
 


Books

Forthcoming (Editor), The Industrial Economics of Computing. Edward-Elgar Press, UK.

Forthcoming (and Victor Stango, Editors), Standards and Public Policy, Cambridge Press

2004, Diamonds are Forever, Computers are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets, Imperial College Press: London.

2002, (and Lorrie Cranor, Editors), Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects, MIT Press.

2001, (and Ben Compaine, Editors), Communications Policy in Transition: The Internet and Beyond, MIT Press.

Chapters in Books

Forthcoming, (and Jeff Prince), “The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide,” in (Eds. Robin Mansell, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone), Oxford Handbook on ICTs, Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming, (And Greg Stranger), "Pricing at the On-ramp to the Internet: Price Indices for ISPs during the 1990s.” (Eds., Ernst Berndt and Charles Hulten) Hard to Measure Goods and Service: Essays in Memory of Zvi Griliches, University of Chicago Press.

Forthcoming, “The Economic Geography of Internet Infrastructure in the United States,” in (eds) Martin Cave, Sumit Majumdar, and Ingo Vogelsang, Handbook of Telecommunication Economics, Volume II. Elsevier.

Articles

2005 (and Angelique Augereau and Marc Rysman), “Coordination versus Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K modems.” Rand Journal of Economics.

2005 (and Mike Mazzeo), “Differentiated Entry into Competitive Telephony,” Journal of Industrial Economics.

2005 (and Avi Goldfarb and Chris Forman) “How did Location Affect adoption of the Internet by Commercial Establishments? Urban density versus Global Village.” Journal of Urban Economics.

2005, "The Economic Geography of Internet Infrastructure in the United States," in (eds) Martin Cave, Sumit Majumdar, and Ingo Vogelsang, Handbook of Telecommunication Economics, Volume 11. Elsevier.

2003, (and Chris Forman and Avi Goldfarb), "Which Industries use the Internet?" in (ed) Michael Baye, Organizing the New Industrial Economy, Elsevier. Pages 47-72.

2002 (and Tom Downes), "Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets," Research Policy. 31, pp 1035-1052.

2001 (and Tim Bresnahan), "The economic contribution of information technology: Towards comparative and user studies," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, v11, pp 95-118.

2000 "Technological Mediation and Commercial Development in the Early Internet Access Market," California Management Review, 43, 2, pp 75-94.

December, 2000, "Building and Developing the Virtual World: The Commercial Internet Access Market." Journal of Industrial Economics, December.

December, 1999 (and Tim Bresnahan). "Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computing Industry," Journal of Industrial Economics.

Winter, 1998 (and Jim Wade), "The Product Life Cycle in the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market, 1968-1983," Rand Journal of Economics.

January, 1997 (and Tim Bresnahan), “Technical Progress and Co-Invention in Computing and in the Use of Computers.” Brookings Papers on Economics Activity: Microeconomics, Pp. 1-78.

1996, (and Tom Downes), "Understanding the Supply Decisions of Non-Profits: Modeling the Location of Private Schools," Rand Journal of Economics. 27 (2), pp 365-390.

1995 (and Susan McMaster and Pablo Spiller), "The Effect of Incentive Regulation on Local Exchange Companies' Deployment of Digital Infrastructure," Journal of Economics, Management, and Strategy. 4 (2), pp 187-236.

1993, "Procedural Rules and Procurement Regulations: Complexity Creates Trade-offs," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations., pp 159-180.

1993, "Did Installed Base Give an Incumbent any (Measurable) Advantages in Federal Computer Procurement?" Rand Journal of Economics, 24(1), pp. 19-39.

   
General / Consulting
 

2004, Co-organizer, (with Victor Stango), Standards and Public Policy, Chicago Federal Reserve Board.
2004 - present, Editorial board, Information and Economic Policy.
2000 - present, Editorial board, Journal of Regulatory Economics
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2000 - present, US Census Advisory Committee.
2000, Chair, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference presents the 28th Annual Conference on "Communications, Internet and Policy."
2000, Coordinator, CCC Doctoral Consortium.
December, 1997, Coordinator (with Scott Stern), NBER Consortium for University Research, "Competition and Organization in Technology Intensive Industries," Cambridge, MA.
June 1995 - present, Columnist and Board member, IEEE Micro, Chips, Systems, and Applications.

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