This page contains links to frequently requested older papers. Most are published
somewhere. I list them by topic. If you want to examine their chronological
order, then please see my Cv-online.pdf. These
are not my working papers. For working papers, see working
papers. These also are not columns. For recent columns, see columns.
Topics:
Geographic Distribution of Communications
Infrastucture
Competitive Behavior of Firms in Technology Markets
User Studies
Standards and Platforms, Technological Competition
Government Procurement of Computing Equipment
Statistical Research: Schooling markets
Overview and Framework: Antitrust and health markets
Economic Theory: The incentives to innovate
Autobiographical
Geographic Distribution of Communications Infrastucture.
Statistical Research
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| Forthcoming | (Tom Downes) | Understanding Why Universal Service Obligations May Be Unnecessary: The Private Development of Local Internet Access Markets | Journal of Urban Economics |
| 2005 | (Chris Forman and Avi Goldfarb) | How did Location Affect Adoption of the Commercial Internet? Global Village vs. Urban Leadership | Journal of Urban Economics |
| 2005 | (Avi Goldfarb and Chris Forman) | How do Industry Features Influence the Role of Location on Internet Adoption? | Journal of the Association of Information Systems |
| 2004 | (Marc Rysman) | Testing for Agglomeration and Dispersion | Economics Letters |
| 2004 | (Chris Forman and Avi Goldfarb) | Geographic Location and the Diffusion of Internet Technology | Electronic Commerce Research Applications |
| 2003 | (Chris Forman and Avi Goldfarb) | The Geographic Dispersion of Commercial Internet Use | In Rethinking Rights and Regulations: Institutional Responses to New Communication Technologies, ed. Steve Wildman and Lorrie Cranor, Cambridge: MIT Press., pp. 113-45. |
Internet Access
Market Maps |
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| 2002 | (Tom Downes) | Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets | in (Ed) Sharon Gillett and Ingo Vogelsang, , Competition, Regulation and Convergence: Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 195-212. |
| 1999 | (Tom Downes) | Do Commercial ISPs Provide Universal Access? | |
Color Maps of ISPs |
Black & White Maps of ISPs |
Statistical Research
on Communications Infrastructure Prior to the Internet |
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| 2003 | (Mercedes Lizardo and Pablo Spiller) | The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States | in (ed) Allan Shampine, Down to the Wire: Studies in the Diffusion and Regulation of Telecommunications Technologies, Nova Science Publishers, New York. Pp. 3-36. |
| 1999 | (Mercedes Lizardo) | Determinants of the Regional Distribution of Information Technology Infrastructure in U.S. | in (Eds) Dale Orr and Tom Wilson, The Electronic Village: Public Policy Issues of the Information Economy. C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, Canada. |
| Dec. 1995 | (Pablo Spiller) | Modern Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Activity: An Empirical Investigation. | Industrial and Corporate Change, 4(4), pp. 647-665. |
| Summer 1995 | (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. |
Overview: The
Economic Geography of the Internet |
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| Forthcoming | Jeff Prince | The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States | in (eds) Danny Quah, Robin Mansell, The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. |
| 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 II. Elsevier. | |
Overview: Why did Commercialization
of the Internet go so well? |
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| forthcoming | Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access. | (eds) Adam Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, Innovation, Policy, and the Economy, Volume 8. University of Chicago Press. | |
| forthcoming | Innovation and the Evolution of the Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States | in (eds) William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, The Commercial Internet and its Impact on American Business, MIT Press. | |
| 2001 | Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Actions | in (eds) Adam Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, Innovation, Policy and the Economy, MIT Press. | |
| 2000 | Framing Empirical Research on the Evolving Structure of Commercial Internet Markets | in (eds) Erik Brynolfsson and Brian Kahin, Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools and Research, MIT Press. | |
Statistical Research
on Entry and Differentiated Competition |
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| Forthcoming | (Angelique Augereau and Marc Rysman) | Coordination versus Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K modems | Rand Journal of Economics |
| Forthcoming | (Greg Stranger) | ISP Pricing in the Shadow of Firm Turnover: ISPs During the 1990s | International Journal of Industrial Organization |
| 2006 | (Mike Mazzeo) | Differentiated Entry into Competitive Telephony | Journal of Industrial Economics |
| Winter 1998 | (Jim Wade) | The Product Life Cycle in the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market, 1968-1983 | Rand Journal of Economics. An earlier version which includes all the estimates and specification is available as an NBER working paper 6124. To view that version, click here. |
| 1997 | From Super-minis to Super Computers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market. | in (Eds) Tim Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon, The Economics of New Goods, Pp. 329-362, University of Chicago Press. | |
| Nov. 1995 | (Eduardo Luzio) | Measuring the Performance of a Protected Infant Industry: The Case of Brazilian Micro-Computers. | Review of Economics and Statistics, pp 622-633. |
Statistical Research
on the Internet Firm Upgrades and Services |
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| Forthcoming | (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. |
| 2001 | (Angelique Augereau) | The Need for Speed in Emerging Communications Markets: Upgrades to Advanced Technology at Internet Service Providers | International Journal of Industrial Organization, v 19, pp 1085-1102. |
| 2000 | Building and Developing the Virtual World: The Commercial Internet Access Market. | Journal of Industrial Economics, December. | |
| 2000 | Empirical Evidence on Commercial Internet Access Providers' Propensity to Offer new Services | (ed) Benjamin Compaign and Ingo Vogelsang. The Internet Upheaval, Raising Questions and Seeking Answers in Communications Policy. MIT Press. | |
Overview and Frameworks
on Managerial Practice |
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| Forthcoming | (Mark Rysman) | Coordination Costs and Standard Setting: Lessons from 56K | in (eds, Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango), Standards and Public Policy, Cambridge Press. |
| 2004 | Technological Mediation as Strategy: The Case of ISPs | in (ed) Subir Chowdhury, Next Generation Business Handbook, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 1128-1156. | |
| Winter 2001 | Technological Mediation and Commercial Development in the Early Internet Access Market | California Management Review, 43, 2, pp 75-94. | |
Statistical Studies
of User Demand for and adoption of new computing technology |
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| Forthcoming | (Chris Forman and Avi Goldfarb) | Understanding the Inputs into Innovation: Do Cities Substitute for Internal Firm Resources? Sloan Management Review write-up about the article: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2008/winter/09/. |
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Here is the cover of JEMS 17(2), where the article appeared. Note the three authors whose names are circled. Here is a picture of those same three authors 19 years earlier. |
| 2003 | Chris Forman and Avi Goldfarb) | Which Industries use the Internet? | in (ed) Michael Baye, Organizing the New Industrial Economy, Elsevier. Pages 47-72. |
| Winter, 2000 | (Ken Brown) | Identifying the Demand for Features: An application to Mainframe Computers | Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol 9, pp 353-383. |
| Winter, 1997 | Lock-in and the Costs of Switching Mainframe Computer Vendors: What Do Buyers See? | Industrial and Corporate Change, 6(2), pp 247-273. | |
| Jan. 1996 | (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 | (Tim Bresnahan) | The Competitive Crash in Large Scale Commercial Computing | in (Eds) Ralph Landau, Timothy Taylor, and Gavin Wright The Mosaic of Economic Growth,Pp. 357-397, Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. |
Overview |
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| 2001 | (Tim Bresnahan) | The economic contribution of information technology: Towards comparative and user studies | Journal of Evolutionary Economics, v11, pp 95-118. A related version is in (ed) Ulrich Witt, Escaping Satiation, The Demand Side of Economic Growth, Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). |
| Winter 1998 | (Ed Jimeniz) | The Emerging Internet Retailing Market as a Nested diffusion Process | International Journal of Innovation Management,V2, N3. |
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| Overview
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| Forthcoming | Standardization, Complexity and Transitional Technology Markets | in (eds) Sherrie Bolin and Carl Cargill, The Standards Edge. | |
| Dec. 1999 | (Tim Bresnahan) | Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computing Industry | Journal of Industrial Economics. |
| 1999 | Vertical Foreclosure in Information Technology Markets: Comment on Ordover and Willig | in (eds) Jeffrey A Eisenach and Thomas M Lenard, Competition, Convergence and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. | |
| Fall 1990 | (Paul David) | The Economics of Compatibility of Standards: A Survey | Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 1., pp 3-41. |
Statistical Research
in Industry Evolution |
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| Dec. 1999 | (Neil Gandal and Dave Salant) | Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market: Chickens and Eggs, Hardware and Software | Journal of Industrial Economics. |
| Fall 1990 | Creating Economic Advantage by Setting Compatibility Standards: Can Physical Tie-ins Extend Monopoly Power? | Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 1., pp 63-84. | |
Standards and Platforms,
Strategy and Managerial Practice |
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| May 1998 | Industrial Economics and Strategy: Computing Platforms | IEEE Micro: Chips, Systems, and Applications, Special issue on Standardization,18 (3), Pp. 43-53. | |
| 1996 | Invisible Hands versus Invisible Advisors: Coordination Mechanisms in Economic Networks | in (Ed) Eli Noam and Aine Nishuilleabhain, Public Networks, Public Objectives, Pp. 135-160, Elsevier Science B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands. | |
| Dec. 1993 | Markets, Standardization, and the Information Infrastructure | IEEE Micro, Chips, Systems, and Applications, Special Issue on Standards, 13 (6), pp. 36-51. | |
| Sept. 1992 | Invisible Hands and Visible Advisors: An Economic Evaluation of Network Standardization | Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 43 (8), pp 538-549. | |
Overview and Frameworks:
Convergence |
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| 1999 | Industrial Convergence | in (Ed) Richard Dorf, The Technology Management Handbook, CRC Press. | |
| 1997 | (Tarun Khanna) | What Does it Mean for Industries to Converge? | in (Ed) David Yoffie, Competing in an Age of Digital Convergence., Pp. 201-226, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA. |
Statistical Research |
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| June 1995 | Sole-Sourcing versus Competitive Bidding: U.S. Government Agencies' Procedural Choices for Mainframe Computer Procurement. | Journal of Industrial Economics,XLIII (2), pp. 125-140. | |
| Spring 1993 | Did Installed Base Give an Incumbent any (Measurable) Advantages in Federal Computer Procurement? | Rand Journal of Economics, 24(1), pp. 19-39. | |
Overview and Frameworks |
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| Winter 1995 | Lock-in and the Costs of Switching Mainframe Computer Vendors in the US Federal Government in the 1970s | IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 17(3), pp 58-66. | |
| April 1993 | Procedural Rules and Procurement Regulations: Complexity Creates Trade-offs | Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations., pp 159-180. | |
| Fall 1990 | (Luis Cabral) | Switching Costs and Bidding Parity in Government Procurement of Computer Systems | Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, 6(2), pp 453-469. |
| 2002 | (Tom Downes) | Entry into the Schooling Market: How is the Behavior of Private Suppliers Influenced by Public Sector Decisions? | Bulletin of Economic Research, 54 (4) October, pp 373-392. |
| Summer 1996 | (Tom Downes) | Understanding the Supply Decisions of Non-Profits: Modeling the Location of Private Schools | Rand Journal of Economics.27 (2), pp 365-390. |
| 2002 | (Cory Capps, David Dranove, Mark Satterthwaite) | Antitrust Policy and Hospital Mergers: Recommendation for a New Approach | Antitrust Law Bulletin. Winter. Pp. 677-714. |
| May 1998 | (Garey Ramey) | Market Structure, Innovation, and Vertical Product Differentiation | International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol 16 (3), Pp. 285-311. |
An amusing tale
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| Fall 1991 | The Tape Story Tapestry: Historical Research in the age of Digital Technology | IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 13(3): pp 27-38 | |
A philosophical and existential
tale |
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| Dec. 1999 | Death of a Sophomore | Cal Alumni Magazine, Vol 110 (3). | |
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