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- Winter 2014
- Article
Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn?
By: Jeff Prince and Shane Greenstein
We examine whether bundling in telecommunications services reduces churn using a series of large, independent cross sections of household decisions. To identify the effect of bundling, we construct a pseudo-panel dataset and utilize a linear, dynamic panel-data model,... View Details
- November 2014
- Article
The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology
By: David Dranove, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
- May 2014
- Article
Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache
By: Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle
Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Apache; Economic Measurement; Digital Economics; Measurement and Metrics; Open Source Distribution; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Economic Growth; Research and Development; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
- May 2014
- Article
Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry
By: Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
Competition to become one of several dominant mobile platforms is intense. Platforms compete for developers, who create applications which make the platform valuable for users. Why doesn't one form of platform governance emerge as superior? This essay will stress the... View Details
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
Neutral Point of View and Collective Intelligence Bias: The Case of Wikipedia
By: Shane Greenstein
- 2013
- Working Paper
Digital Dark Matter and the Economics of Apache
By: Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle
Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the... View Details
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Measuring the Broadband Bonus in 20 OECD Countries
By: Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt
This paper provides estimates of the economic value created by broadband Internet using measures of new gross domestic product and consumer surplus. The study finds that the economic value created in 30 OECD countries correlates roughly with the overall size of their... View Details
- 2012
- Chapter
Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
- Article
Pricing Experience Goods in Information Goods Markets: The Case of eBusiness Service Providers
By: Shane Greenstein and Sarit Markovich
- February 2012
- Article
The Internet and Local Wages: A Puzzle
By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
- Article
The Broadband Bonus: Estimating Broadband Internet's Economic Value
By: Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt
- Article
Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services
By: Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt