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Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
danah boyd

Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
Erik Brynjolfsson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. Ryan Calo

Stanford University
Jacques Cremer

Toulouse University
Edward Felten

Princeton University
Neil Gandal

Tel Aviv University
Joshua Gans

University of Toronto
Urs Gasser

Harvard University
Eric Goldman

Santa Clara University
Shane Greenstein

Northwestern University
James Grimmelmann

New York Law School
Dale Hatfield

University of Colorado
Chris Hoofnagle

University of California, Berkeley
Marco Iansiti

Harvard University
Doug Lichtman

UCLA
Helen Nissenbaum

New York University
John Palfrey

Harvard University
Frank Pasquale

Seton Hall University
Randal Picker

University of Chicago
Gregory L. Rosston

Stanford University
Ira Rubinstein

New York University
James Speta

Northwestern University
Katherine Strandburg

New York University
Joseph Turow

University of Pennsylvania
Siva Vaidhyanathan

University of Virginia
Barbara van Schewick

Stanford University
Hal R. Varian

University of California, Berkeley
Philip J. Weiser

University of Colorado
Kevin Werbach

University of Pennsylvania
Tim Wu

Columbia University
Christopher Yoo

University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Zittrain

Harvard University

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Research Articles On This Issue	Author	Year
"Net Neutrality," Non-Discrimination and Digital Distribution Through the Internet	Nicholas Economides	2007
"Third Way" on Net Neutrality, A	Philip J. Weiser and Robert D. Atkinson	2006
Access Controlled - The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace	John Palfrey et al	2010
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering	John Palfrey et al	2008
Access Regulation and the Adoption of VoIP	Paul De Bijl and Martin Peitz	2006
Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising	Helen Nissenbaum et al	2010
Ad-sponsored Business Models and Compatibility Incentives of Social Networks	Feng Zhu	2008
Affiliation Effect in First-Price Auctions, The	Guofu Tan and Joris Pinske	2005
Analysis of Google Log Retention Policies, An	Helen Nissenbaum and Vincent Toubiana	2011
Antitrust Analysis of the Case for Wireless Network Neutrality, An	Gregory L. Rosston and Michael Topper	2009
Antitrust and Regulation	Randal Picker and Dennis Carlton	2006
Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability?	Pamela Samuelson	2009
Are Ratings Informative Signals? The Analysis of the Netflix Data	Ivan Maryanchyk	2008
Are Social Networking Sites a Source of Harassment for Teens? Evidence from Survey Data	Anirban Sengupta and Anoshua Chaudhuri	2008
Asymmetric Network Effects	Estelle Cantillon and Pai-Ling Yin	2008
Author's Place in the Future of Copyright, The	Jane Ginsburg	2008
Behavioural Targeting of Online Advertisements and the Future of Data Protection	Andrea Matwyshyn	2009
Beyond Competition and Innovation: The Need for Qualified Transparency in Internet Intermediaries	Frank Pasquale	2010
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives	Urs Gasser and John Palfrey	2008
Broadband Bonus, The: Estimating Broadband Internet's Economic Value	Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt	2011
Broadband User Discrimination and the Net Neutrality Debate	Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay et al	2009
Business Strategies for Multi-Sided Platforms: Lessons From the Conquest of the Online Frontier 1979-1995	Anne Layne-Farrar et al	2007
Censorship 2.0	John Palfrey et al	2008
Challenge of Developing Effective Public Policy on the Use of Social Media by Youth, The	John Palfrey	2010
Challenge of Increasing Broadband Capacity, The	Dale Hatfield	2010
Clash of the Titans: Does Internet Use Reduce Television Viewing?	Stan Liebowitz and Alejandro Zentner	2009
Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model	Erik Brynjolfsson et al	2010
Cloud Computing: Architectural and Policy Implications	Christopher Yoo	2011
Collective Privacy	Lior Strahilevitz	2010
Communications' Copyright Policy	Molly S. Van Houweling	2005
Competition Or Predation? Consumer Coordination, Strategic Pricing And Price Floors In Network Markets	Michael L. Katz and Joseph Farrell	2005
Competition Policy in Network Industries: An Introduction	Nicholas Economides	2004
Competition vs. Regulation in Mobile Telecommunications	Thomas Tangeras	2008
Computer Mediated Transactions	Hal R. Varian	2010
Conditioning Prices on Purchase History	Hal R. Varian and Alessandro Acquisti	2002
Connections: Beyond Universal Service in the Digital Age	Kevin Werbach	2009
Consumer Search on the Internet	Babur De Los Santos	2008
Consumers' Understanding of Privacy Rules in the Marketplace: Findings from a National Survey	Joseph Turow et al	2008
Consumer-Welfare Approach to Network Neutrality Regulation of the Internet, A	J. Gregory Sidak	2006
Contextual Approach to Privacy Online, A	Helen Nissenbaum	2011
Contracts for Clouds: Comparison and Analysis of the Terms and Conditions of Cloud Computing Services	Christopher Millard et al	2010
Decomposing the Congestion Effect and the Cross-Platform Effect in Two-Sided Networks: A Field Experiment	Catherine Tucker and Juanjuan Zhang	2008
Deliberative Information Markets for Small Groups	Michael Abramowicz	2006
Demand for Products Linked to Public Goods, The: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment	Brian McManus and Richard Bennet	2008
Diffusion of Fixed Broadband, The: An Empirical Analysis	Justin Brown and Saugwon Lee	2008
Digital Age Communications Act Paradigm for Federal-State Relations, A	Philip J. Weiser and Kyle D. Dixon	2006
Digital Media Distribution and Playback on Computers - An Overview	David S. Evans et al	2005
Do Social Networks Solve Information Problems for Peer-to-Peer Lending? Evidence from Prosper.com	Ginger Zhe Jin and Seth Freedman	2008
Does Anyone Read Fine Print? A Test of the Informed Minority Hypothesis Using Clickstream Data	Yannis Bakos et al	2009
Dr. Generative or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone	Paul Ohm and James Grimmelmann	2010
Dynamic Model of Sponsored Search Advertising, A	Song Yao and Carl Mela	2008
Economic Assessment of UCITA, An	Robert W. Hahn and Anne Layne-Farrar	2001
Economic Consequences of the Diffusion of Cloud Computing, The	Federico Etro	2010
Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output in Europe, The	Federico Etro	2009
Economic Perspectives on the History of the Computer Time-sharing Industry	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2008
Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management, An	Brett M. Frischmann	2005
Economics of Internet Search, The	Hal R. Varian	2007
Economics of Net Neutrality, The	Robert W. Hahn and Scott Wallsten	2006
Economics of Net Neutrality, The: Why the Physical Layer of the Internet Should Not Be Regulated	Christopher Yoo	2004
Economists’ Statement on Network Neutrality Policy	Robert W. Hahn et al	2007
Empirically Testing for Indirect Network Externalities in the LCD Television Market	Jeffrey Livingston et al	2008
Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape	Urs Gasser et al	2009
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, the First Amendment, and Internet Speech	Molly S. Van Houweling	2005
Entrepreneurial Innovations in Network Industries	Pehr-Johan Norback et al	2008
Equilibrium Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions: Theory and Evidence	Tilman Borgers et al	2007
Essential Nature of Infrastructure or The Infrastructural Nature of Essential Facilities	Spencer Weber Waller and Brett M. Frischmann	2006
Estimating a Model of Strategic Store-Network Choice	Mitsukuni Nishida	2008
Estimating Search with Learning	Sergei Koulayev	2008
Exploring the Future of Cloud Computing: Riding the Next Wave of Technology-Driven Transformation	The World Economic Forum	2010
Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness, and Accountability in the Law of Search	Frank Pasquale and Oren Bracha	2008
Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience	Christopher Yoo	2009
Freedom of Association in a Networked World: First Amendment Regulation of Relational Surveillance	Katherine Strandburg	2008
From Preemption to Circumvention: If Technology Regulates, Why Do We Need Regulation (And Vice Versa)?	Helen Nissenbaum
From Products to Services: The Software Industry in the Internet Era	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2007
From Sector-Specific Regulation to Antitrust Law for U.S. Telecommunications: The Prospects for Transition	Howard Shelanski	2002
Future of Reputation, The: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet	Daniel J. Solove	2007
Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, The	Jonathan Zittrain	2008
Generative Internet, The	Jonathan Zittrain	2006
Government 3.0	The Silicon Flatirons Center	2009
Guest Editors' Introduction: Lawyers and Technologists: Joined at the Hip?	Ira Rubinstein and James X. Dempsey	2006
Higher Standards: Regulation in the Network Age	Kevin Werbach	2009
History of the Internet, The: The Missing Narratives	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2005
Holding Internet Service Providers Accountable	Doug Lichtman and Eric Posner	2006
Home, Home on the Web and other Fourth Amendment Implications of Technosocial Change	Katherine Strandburg	2011
Ideological Segregation in Online News Consumption: Preliminary Evidence	Matt Gentzkow	2010
Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition, The	Susan Athey and Joshua Gans	2010
Incentives to Invest and to Give Access to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks	Joao Vareda and Pedro Pereira	2008
Information 'Ownership' in the Cloud	Chris Reed	2010
Information Rules	Hal R. Varian et al	1999
Intense Network Competition	Johan Stennek and Thomas Tangeras	2008
Interactive, Option-Value and Domino Network Effects in Technology Adoption	Catherine Tucker	2006
Interconnecting Differentiated Networks	Alexei Alexandrov	2008
Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling of Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords	Benjamin Edelman et al	2007
Internet and Local Wages, The: A Puzzle	Shane Greenstein et al	2012
Internet Architecture and Innovation	Barbara van Schewick	2010
Internet is Closing to Innovation, The	Jonathan Zittrain	2008
Internet Nondiscrimination Principles: Commercial Ethics for Carriers and Search Engines	Frank Pasquale	2008
Internet Points of Control	Jonathan Zittrain	2003
Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition	Glenn Ellison and Sarah Fisher Ellison	2006
Introduction of Software Products and Services Through Public “Beta” Launches	Amit Mehra and Gireesh Shrimali	2008
Is the Internet a Maturing Market?	Christopher Yoo	2010
Layer Architectures and Regulation in Telecommunications	Andrew Odlyzko	2004
Legal vs. Ownership Unbundling in Network Industries	Jacques Cremer et al	2006
Lessons about Markets from the Internet	Glenn Ellison and Sarah Fisher Ellison	2005
Local Nets: Filtering and the Internet Governance Problem	John Palfrey	2005
Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity	Robert Merges	2009
Lost in the Cloud	Jonathan Zittrain	2009
Low-Income Demand for Local Telephone Service: Effects of Lifeline and Linkup	Gregory L. Rosston et al	2009
Map of Commerce, The: Internet Search, Competition, and the Circular Flow of Information	Daniel Spulber	2009
Market Entry in E-Commerce	Maximilian Kasy and Michael Kummer	2008
Market Penetration and Late Entry in Mobile Telephony	Steffen Hoernig	2008
Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, The	Tim Wu	2010
Mediated Book, The	Randal Picker	2009
Modeling the Product Space as a Network	Nitesh Chawla et al	2008
Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony?	Thomas Hazlett	2009
Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators	Kevin Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu	2008
National Broadband Plan, The	Gregory L. Rosston	2010
Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives	Jay Pil Choi	2008
Network Effects, User-Generated Content, and Social Ties: Evidence from an Online Social Network	Reto Hofstetter et al	2009
Network Neutrality	Lawrence Lessig and Tim Wu	2003
Network Neutrality after Comcast: Toward a Case-by-Case Approach to Reasonable Network Management	Christopher Yoo	2009
Network Neutrality and the False Promise of Zero-Price Regulation	C. Scott Hemphill	2008
Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination	Tim Wu	2003
Network Neutrality, Consumers, and Innovation	Christopher Yoo	2008
Network Neutrality: Regulating With More Questions than Answers	Howard Shelanski	2007
Network Neutrality: What a Non-Discrimination Rule Should Look Like	Barbara van Schewick	2010
Network Rules	Susan Crawford	2006
Network Stability and Network Effects	Catherine Tucker	2008
Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law	Christopher Yoo and Daniel Spulber	2009
Next Digital Decade, The	John Palfrey et al	2011
Next Generation Connectivity	Urs Gasser et al	2009
Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age	Joseph Turow	2006
Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations: Lessons from the Internet	Shane Greenstein	2011
On Software Regulation	R. Polk Wagner	2005
One-Way Contracts: Consumer Protection without Law	Omri Ben-Shahar	2009
Online Ad Auctions	Hal R. Varian	2009
Online Advertising, Identity and Privacy	Randal Picker	2009
Opening Platforms: How, When, and Why	Geoffrey Parker et al	2008
Opening statement at the FCC’s Workshop on Approaches to Preserving the Open Internet	Barbara van Schewick	2010
Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment: The Case of Sponsored Search Auctions	Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz	2006
Optimal Information Disclosure	Ilya Segal and Luis Rayo	2009
Optimal Search Auctions	Jacques Cremer et al	2007
Organizational Economics of Physician Practices	James B. Rebitzer and Mark E. Votruba	2011
Platform Competition with Complementary Products	Guofu Tan and Juan D. Carrillo	2008
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency	Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda	2008
Platform Envelopment	Geoffrey Parker et al	2007
Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators	Kevin Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu	2008
Platform Syphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content	Joshua Gans and Simon P. Anderson	2011
Position Auctions	Hal R. Varian	2006
Position Auctions with Consumer Search	Susan Athey and Glenn Ellison	2008
Property Rights in Emerging Platform Technologies	Doug Lichtman	2000
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Immunity: An Application to Cyberspace	Keith Hylton	2007
Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency	Andrei Hagiu	2006
Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content	danah boyd et al	2011
Public and the Private at the United States Border with Cyberspace, The	John Palfrey	2008
Public Must Fight to Maintain Net Neutrality	Lawrence Lessig and Ben Scott	2008
Public Policy Towards the Internet and Development	Jacques Cremer	2001
Recommender Systems and their Effects on Consumers: The Fragmentation Debate	Kartik Hosanagar and Daniel M. Fleder	2008
Re-evaluating the Theory and Realities of Online Contracts	Philip J. Weiser	2009
Regulation of Broadband Telecommunications, the Principle of Regulating Narrowly Defined Input Bottlenecks...	William Rogerson	2000
Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet	John Palfrey	2006
Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information	Lior Strahilevitz	2007
Reputational Information: A Research Agenda	Eric Goldman	2009
Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing, A: Termination-Based Price Discrimination...	Doh-Shin Jeon and Sjaak Hurkens	2008
Rethinking Antitrust Law in an Age of Network Industries	George Priest	2007
Rethinking Broadband Internet Access	Christopher Yoo and Daniel Spulber	2008
Rethinking Television in the Digital Age	Joseph Turow	2010
Revenue Analysis of a Family of Ranking Rules for Keyword Auctions	Sebastian Lahai and David M. Pennock	2007
Revolutions Were Tweeted, The: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions	danah boyd et al	2011
Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Software-as-a-Service, The: Historical Perspectives on the Computer Utility and Software	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2007
Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance, The	Benjamin Klein and Keith B. Leffler	1981
Saving Facebook	James Grimmelmann	2009
Search Cost Model of Obfuscation, A	Glenn Ellison and Alexander Wolitzky	2009
Search Engine Advertising: Pricing Ads to Context	Catherine Tucker and Avi Goldfarb	2007
Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism	Eric Goldman	2006
Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet	Glenn Ellison and Sarah Fisher Ellison	2009
Six Provocations for Big Data	danah boyd and Kate Crawford	2011
Skewed Bidding in Pay Per Action Auctions for Online Advertising	Susan Athey et al	2009
Social Interactions, Network Fluidity and Network Effects	Catherine Tucker	2008
Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies	danah boyd and Alice Marwick	2011
Software and Internet Law	Mark Lemley et al	2001
Storing our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues	Deirdre Mulligan et al	2005
Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions	Benjamin Edelman and Michael Ostrovsky	2007
Strategic Bidding in Hybrid CPC/CPM Auctions	Kenneth C. Wilbur and Yi Zhu	2008
Structure of Search Engine Law, The	James Grimmelmann	2007
Subsidizing Creativity through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality	Tim Wu and Robin S. Lee	2009
Survey of the Economic Role of Software Platforms in Computer-Based Industries, A	David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee	2005
Telecommunications Law and Policy	Doug Lichtman et al	2006
The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics	danah boyd and Alice Marwick	2011
Thinking Critically About Advertising and Consumer Culture	Joseph Turow	2009
Timing is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online Privacy Indicators	Alessandro Acquisti et al	2009
Toward a Unified Theory of Access to Local Telephone Systems	Christopher Yoo and Daniel Spulber	2008
TrackMeNot: Resisting Surveillance in Web Search	Helen Nissenbaum and Daniel C. Howe	2009
Troubling Trend Toward Trade Secrecy in Rankings and Ratings, The	Frank Pasquale	2011
Trusting the Net in Developing Countries: Peer Production of Internet Governance	John Palfrey et al	2004
Tying in Two-Sided Markets with Multi-Homing	Jay Pil Choi	2006
Unregulating Online Harassment	Eric Goldman	2010
Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services	Gregory L. Rosston et al	2011
Value of Switching Costs, The	Gary Biglaiser et al	2009
Vernacular Resistance to Data Obfuscation and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation	Helen Nissenbaum and Finn Brunton	2011
Wasteland, The: Anticommons, White Spaces, and the Fallacy of Spectrum	Kevin Werbach	2011
What Makes them Click: Empirical Analysis of Consumer Demand for Internet Search Advertising	Ilya Segal and Przemyslaw Jeziorski	2009
When Net Neutrality Met Privacy		2009
Who Should Regulate Entry into IPTV and Municipal Wireless?	Randal Picker	2006
Who Thinks About the Competition? Managerial Ability and Strategic Entry in U.S. Local Telephone Markets	Avi Goldfarb and Mo Xiao	2008
Who’s Who in Networks. Wanted: the Key Group	Umed Temurshoev	2008
Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions	Jonathan Levin et al	2009
Your Network or Mine? The Economics of Routing Rules	Michael L. Katz and Benjamin E. Hermalin	2006