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Making the Market: How Interoperability and Tipping Points Can Influence Network Size
by Scott Andes
Download the Full Text Executive Summary New technology systems are increasingly being characterized by what are called “network externalities” where the value of certain technologies increases with additional users. Such externalities often imply the actual size of a network is below the socially...
Country Clustering Based on Search-Query Pattern Correlation
This paper introduces a technique to cluster regions or countries for marketing purposes. It uses information gathered through aggregated website search-query patterns, available from web logs or analytics software. Clustering done using this technique helps grouping countries that similarly respond...
Exploring Consumer Broadband ISP Markets
Consumer broadband technology is of great interest to policymakers for a variety of reasons, but little is known about what factors truly impact the actual speeds users experience and the prices they pay for use. This paper uses regression analysis to examine the relationship between speed and price...
Copyright in a Digital Age: Piracy, Access, and the Internet
Please join us this Thursday for the FIRST FORUM of the year!!!!! This is a SPECIAL FORUM that will be in conjunction with the launch of the newest edition of the Heinz Journal! If you weren’t sure what the big deal was about SOPA, PIPA, last Wednesday’s internet blackout might have given you a...
Prof. Mike Smith Talks about SOPA, PIPA and his research on Piracy
Prof. Mike D. Smith at the Heinz College has recently completed a report showing how much more money was spent on iTunes in France as a result of their anti-piracy legislation in 2009. He showed that there was a significant increase. Tune in as we talk about the now tabled legislation in the U.S....