Using internet data for economic research

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-206

  Edelman, Benjamin ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863091418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08953309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.26.2.189     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Acquisti, Alessandro, and Ralph Gross. 2006. "Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook." Presented at the Sixth Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 28-30.
2. Acquisti, Alessandro, and Ralph Gross. 2009. "Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data." PNAS 106(27):10975-80.
3. Baker, Sara, Adalbert Mayer, and Steven L. Puller. 2011. "Do More Diverse Environments Increase the Diversity of Subsequent Interaction? Evidence from Random Dorm Assignment." Economics Letters 110(2):110-112.
4. Barbaro, Michael, and Tom Zeller, Jr. 2006. "A Face is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749." New York Times, August 9.
5. Baye, Michael R., John Morgan, and Patrick Scholten. 2004. "Price Dispersion in the Small and in the Large: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site." Journal of Industrial Economics 52(4):463-96. (Pubitemid 40005142)
6. Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Ram D. Gopal, Kaveepan, Lertwachara, and James R. Marsden. 2006. "Impact of Legal Threats on Online Music Sharing Activity An Analysis of Music Industry Legal Actions." Journal of Law and Economics 49(1):91-114. (Pubitemid 44031778)
7. Carlton, Dennis W., and Judith A. Chevalier. 2001. "Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet." Journal of Industrial Economics 49(4):441-61. (Pubitemid 33583032)
8. Cavallo, Alberto. 2011. "Scraped Data and Sticky Prices." January 27. http://www.mit.edu/~afc/papers/Cavallo-Scraped.pdf.
9. Centola, Damon. 2010. "The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment." Science, September 3, 329(5996):1194-97.
10. Chen, Yan, F. Maxwell Harper, Joseph Konstan, and Sherry Xin Li. 2010. "Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens." American Economic Review 100(4):1358-98.
11. Chevalier Judith, and Austan Goolsbee. 2003. "Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon. com vs. BarnesandNoble.com." Quantitative Marketing and Economics 1(2):203-222.
12. Chiou, Lesley, and Catherine Tucker. 2011. "Copyright, Digitization, and Aggregation. " NET Institute Working Paper No. 11-18.
13. Choi, Hyunyoung, and Hal Varian. 2009. "Predicting Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits." July 5. http://research.google.com/archive/ papers/initialclaimsUS.pdf.
14. comScore. 2011. "Methodology." Information on a webpage. http://www.comscore.com/About-comScore/Methodology.
15. Daniel Kahneman, and Amos Tversky. 1979. "Prospect Theory An Analysis of Decision under Risk." Econometrica 47(2):263-92.
16. Edelman, Benjamin. 2002. "The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon. com." http://www.benedelman.org/publications/ thesis-intro.pdf.
17. Edelman, Benjamin, and Duncan S. Gilchrist. 2010. "'Sponsored Links' or 'Advertisements'?: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines." Harvard Business School Working Paper 11-048.
18. Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin. 2009. "Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?" Harvard Business School Working Paper 09-096.
19. Einav, Liran, Theresa Kuchler, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neel Sundaresan. 2011. "Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets." NBER Working Paper 17385.
20. Ellison, Glen, and Sara Fisher Ellison. 2009. "Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preferences in Internet Purchasing." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1(2):53-71.
21. Freedman, Seth, and Ginger Zhe Jin. 2011. "Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com." NBER Working Paper 16855.
22. Ginsberg, Jeremy, Matthew H. Mohebbi, Rajan S. Patel, Lynnette Brammer, Mark S. Smolinski, and Larry Brilliant. 2009. "Detecting Influenza Epidemics Using Search Engine Query Data." Nature, February 19, Volume 457(7232):1012-14.
23. Hitsch, Gunther J., Ali Hortaçsu, and Dan Ariely. 2010. "Matching and Sorting in Online Dating." American Economic Review 100(1):130-63.
24. Horton, John J., David G. Rand, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. 2011. "The Online Laboratory Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market." Experimental Economics 14(3):399-425.
25. Hossain, Tanjim, and John Morgan. 2006. "⋯ Plus Shipping and Handling: Revenue (Non) Equivalence in Field Experiments on eBay." Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 6(2):Article 3.
26. Internet Archive. 2011. "About the Wayback Machine." Information on a webpage. http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
27. Iyengar, Raghuram, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta. 2009. "Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?" HBS Marketing Unit Working Paper 09-123.
28. th Global Telecommunications Conference, Globcom 2004, Dallas TX, Nov. 29-Dec. 3.
29. Katkar, Rama, and David H. Reiley. 2006. "Public versus Secret Reserve Prices in eBay Auctions: Results from a Pokémon Field Experiment." Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy 6(2):Article 7.
30. Lewis, Randall A., and David H. Reiley. 2011. "Does Retail Advertising Work? Measuring the Effects of Advertising on Sales via Controlled Experiment on Yahoo!" http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/ DoesRetailAdvertisingWork.pdf.
31. List, John A. 2011. "Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pulling One Off." Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(3):3-16.
32. Mason, Winter, and Siddharth Suri. 2011. "Conducting Behavioral Research on Amazon's Mechanical Turk." Behavior Research Methods. Online publication, June 30. doi: 10.3758/s13428-011-0124-6.
33. Miller, Sarah. 2011. "Information and Default in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ smille36/www/InformationDefault062011.pdf.
34. Netcraft. 2011. "June 2011 Web Server Survey." http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/06/07/june-2011-web-server-survey.html.
35. th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, San Jose, California, June.
36. th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2010), pp. 297-304. ACM Digital Library.
37. Resnick, Paul, Richard Zeckhauser, John Swanson, and Kate Lockwood. 2006. "The Value of Reputation on eBay A Controlled Experiment." Experimental Economics 9(2):79-101. (Pubitemid 43830181)
38. Roth, Alvin E., and Axel Ockenfels. 2002. "Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet." American Economic Review 92(4):1093-1103.
39. Saroiu, Stefan, Steven Gribble, and Henry Levy. 2004. "Measurement and Analysis of Spyware in a University Environment." Presented at the First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'04), San Francisco, CA, March 29-31.
40. Schechter, Stuart, Rachna Dhamija, Andy Ozment, and Ian Fischer. 2007. "The Emperor's New Security Indicators." Presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May.
41. Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu. 2010. "Technology Shocks in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers." NET Institute Working Paper 10-11.
42. Varian, Hal R. 2010. "Computer Mediated Transactions." American Economic Review 100(2):1-10.
43. Vincent, Arnaud, and Margaret Armstrong. 2010. "Predicting Break-Points in Trading Strategies with Twitter." SSRN Working Paper 1685150.
44. Wu, Lynn, and Erik Brynjolfsson. 2009. "The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales." Presented at the NBER meeting on Technological Progress & Productivity Measurement, December 4.