The Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States (2008)
Shane Greenstein, Shane Greenstein
economic and public policy issues. The SIEPR Discussion Paper Series reports on research and policy
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
We provide a framework and evidence to confront two questions: Does the location of an establishment shape its adoption of different complex Internet applications even when controlling for an...
Bureau of Automotive Repair have been extremely helpful. I would also like to thank Antonio (2007)
Thomas N. Hubbard, Shane Greenstein, Wei-yin Hu, Matthew Kahn, Peter Reiss, Andrea Shepard, ...
I would like to thank participants of various seminars for their comments. Buzz Breedlove at the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (2007)
Mark Doms, Christopher Forman, Shane Greenstein, Jack Triplett
assistance. We wish to thank Jason Coburn, Jonathan Eller and Susan Polatz for outstanding research assistance. We also wish to thank Gregory Goldstein and Robert Drzyzgula for sharing their...
Prepared for the Journal of Economic Perspectives. (2007)
David Lucking-reiley, Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg Graduate, Brad Delong, Alan Krueger, ...
Foundation through grant SBR-9811273 and the hospitality of the Kellogg Graduate
To the uninitiated, and even the old hand, the computer industry is an intimidating agglomeration of firms, markets, and buyers, all changing quickly in response to the latest innovation or recently...
Direct vs. Indirect Network E¤ects: Standardization and Compatibility ¤ (2007)
Ramon Casadesus-masanell, Shane Greenstein, Charles Hope
Strong direct and indirect network e¤ects both lead to technological stan-dardization. While many analyses con‡ate the two, I show that the ways in which direct and indirect e¤ects in‡uence...
Bundling of Network Goods ¤ (2007)
David Besanko, Ramon Casadesus-masanell, Shane Greenstein, Emre Ozdenoren
I investigate the competition between suppliers of components of a system for which there are network e¤ects among users. Bundling one of these compo-nents with an outside good reduces the cost to...
Economic experiments in internet access markets (2007)
Innovation within Internet access markets can be usefully understood through the lens of economic experiments. Economic experiments yield lessons to market participants through market experience. The...
Are All Managers Created Equal? (2007)
Avi Goldfarb, Botao Yang, Pat Bajari, Andrew Ching, Allan Collard-wexler, Shane Greenstein, ...
Some managers are better than others. Based on the cognitive hierarchy framework of Camerer, Ho, and Chong (2004), we develop a structural econometric model that estimates the level of strategic...
PUBLICATIONS Articles in Refereed Journals (2006)
Chris Forman, Shane Greenstein, David Besanko, Ranjay Gulati, Michael Mazzeo
The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide (2006)
This chapter analyzes the rapid diffusion of the Internet across the United States over the past decade for both households and firms. We put the Internet’s diffusion into the context of economic...
Joel West, Shane Greenstein, Victor Stango
Open standards have long been popular among buyers of goods and services in the information technology sector. Self-interested buyers and sellers, however, have had incentives to overstate (or...
Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems ∗ (2004)
Angelique Augeureau, Shane Greenstein, Marc Rysman, Angelique Augereau, Shane Greenstein, Marc Rysman
, is a non-profit institution devoted to research on network industries, electronic commerce, telecommunications, the Internet, “virtual networks” comprised of computers that share the same...
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Classification L
We provide a framework and evidence to confront two contradictory yet common assertions: (1) new technology such as the Internet favors businesses in urban areas and (2) the Internet reduces the...
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (2001)
Mark Doms, Christopher Forman, Shane Greenstein, Jack Triplett
assistance. We wish to thank Jason Coburn, Jonathan Eller and Susan Polatz for outstanding research assistance. We also wish to thank Gregory Goldstein and Robert Drzyzgula for sharing their...
Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access (2000)
S. Greenstein, Shane Greenstein
this paper subsumes all discussion found in an earlier working paper entitled "Providing Access to More than Access: Services in the Commercial Internet Access Market." All errors are mine.
Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access (2000)
David Genesove, Shane Greenstein, Shane Greenstein
provided outstanding research assistance. The results and discussion in this paper subsumes all discussion found in an earlier working paper entitled "Providing A ccess to More than Access:...
American Bar Foundation and NBER and (2000)
Austan Goolsbee, Peter J. Klenow, Judy Chevalier, Leora Friedberg, Shane Greenstein
In this paper we examine the importance of local spillovers such as network externalities and learning from others in the diffusion of home computers. We use data on 110,000 U.S. households in 1997....
Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market (1995)
Neil Gandal, Shane Greenstein, David Salant
In this paper we develop a model with (1) differentiated consumers, (2) endogenous adoption times, (3) technical uncertainty, and (4) alternative technologies sponsored by competing vendors. We...
This study analyzes the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access. The geographic spread of ISPs is a key consideration in U.S....
Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems
Angelique Augereau, Shane Greenstein, Marc Rysman
56K modems were introduced under two competing incompatible standards. We show the importance of competition between Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. We show that ISPs were less...
The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States
This paper analyses the rapid diffusion of the Internet across the United States over the past decade for both households and firms. We put the Internet's diffusion into the context of economic...
Thomas Downes, Shane Greenstein
This study analyzes the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access. The geographic spread of ISPs is a key consideration in U.S....
SHANE GREENSTEIN, MICHAEL MAZZEO
We examine the role of differentiation among competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) in nearly 1,200 U.S. cities in 1999 and 2002, before and after a valuation crash affecting communications...
City or country: where do businesses use the internet?
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
This Economic Letter summarizes research finding that the use of basic internet technology is widely dispersed among both urban and rural locations. Moreover, although advanced internet technology...
Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market
Neil Gandal, Shane GreenStein, David Salant
In this paper we examine the development of the micro-computer market in the early 1980's. CP/M, a widely adopted operating system, was orphaned by the user and development communities. A new...
Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access.
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the...
Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry.
Bresnahan, Timothy F, Greenstein, Shane
The authors examine thirty years of computer industry market structure. Their analysis explains the persistence of dominant computer firms, their recent decline, and the changing success of...
Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market.
Gandal, Neil, Greenstein, Shane, Salant, David
In this paper, the authors examine the development of the microcomputer market in the early 1980s. CP/M, a widely-adopted operating system, was orphaned by the user and the development communities. A...
Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market
Neil Gandal, Shane Greenstein, David Salant
In this paper we develop a model with (1) differentiated consumers, (2) endogenous adoption times, (3) technical uncertainty, and (4) alternative technologies sponsored by competing vendors. We...
Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets
Concern over the potential need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other combinations of communication and computing motivates this study of the geographic...
Measuring the Performance of a Protected Infant Industry: The Case of Brazilian Microcomputers.
Luzio, Eduardo, Greenstein, Shane
Until the beginnings of the Collor presidency in 1990, the Brazilian government strongly protected domestic producers of electronics goods. Using hedonic methods, the authors analyze systematic...
Pricing in the shadow of firm turnover: ISPs during the 1990s
Stranger, Greg, Greenstein, Shane
We examine the relationship between changes in price levels and the evolution of the market for dial-up ISPs in the United States from November 1993 to January 1999. This was a period of much entry...
Understanding the Inputs into Innovation: Do Cities Substitute for Internal Firm Resources?
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
"We examine whether there is a trade-off between employing internal (firm) resources and purchased external (local) resources in process innovation. We draw on a rich dataset of Internet investments...
Shane Greenstein, Timothy F. Bresnahan
By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and...
From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market
Innovation was rampant in the computer industry during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Did innovation vastly extend the capabilities of computers or simply reduce the costs of doing the same thing?...
The Competitive Crash in Large-Scale Commercial Computing
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein
We examine the factors underlying buyer demand for large Information Technology solutions in order to understand the competitive crash in large scale commercial computing. We examine individual buyer...
Universal Service in the Digital Age: The Commercialization and Geography of U.S. Internet Access
Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other combinations of communication and computing. This concern motivates a study of the...
Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the...
Cory S. Capps, David Dranove, Shane Greenstein, Mark Satterthwaite
Elzinga/Hogarty inflow/outflow analysis is a mainstay of geographic market definition in antitrust analysis. For example, U.S. antitrust agencies lost several hospital merger challenges when evidence...
Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commerical Internet Use
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
Our study provides the first census of the dispersion of Internet technology to commercial establishments in the United States. We distinguish between participation, that is, use of the Internet...
Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation: Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s
Shane Greenstein, Michael Mazzeo
The authors examine the role of differentiation strategies for entry behavior in markets for local telecommunication services in the late 1990s. Whereas the prior literature has used models of...
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more...
Technology Adoption In and Out of Major Urban Areas: When Do Internal Firm Resources Matter Most?
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
How much do internal firm resources contribute to technology adoption in major urban locations, where the advantages from agglomeration are greatest? The authors address this question in the context...
Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives...
Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices
Why did commercialization of the Internet develop so well? This paper examines events in the Internet access market as a window on this broad question. The study emphasizes four themes. First,...
Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein
May 27, 1997
The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein
Did the diffusion of the Internet lead to convergence or divergence of local wages? We examine the relationship between business use of advanced Internet technology and regional variation in US wage...
The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP
Shane Greenstein, Ryan C. McDevitt
How much economic value did the diffusion of broadband create? We provide benchmark estimates for 1999 to 2006. We observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband...
Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Shane Greenstein
New technologies, although developed with optimism, often fall short of their predicted potential and create new problems. Communications technologies are no different. Their utopian proponents claim...
Communications Policy in Transition: The Internet and Beyond
Benjamin M. Compaine, Shane Greenstein
Until the 1980s, it was presumed that technical change in most communications services could easily be monitored from centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior...
Greenstein,Shane, Stango,Victor
Technological standards are a cornerstone of the modern information economy, affecting firm strategy, market performance and, by extension, economic growth. While there is general agreement that...