All Article Summaries
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Creating a Platform for Costless Personalization in Clothing
A case study of Threadless reveals the importance of co-inventions combining understanding of technology with business processes. Threadless creates digital dark matter, benefits that cannot easily by measured.
Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn?
This study considers whether firms that sell telecommunications services as a bundle find it easier to retain customers. The data shows that bundling does reduce “churn” for pay television, broadband, and telephone service.
Internet and Local Wages, The: A Puzzle
This paper examines why Internet-related investment increased wages in only some US counties.
Broadband Bonus, The: Estimating Broadband Internet's Economic Value
This paper attempts to estimate the extent of economic gains from broadband adoption in the U.S.
Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services
This paper shows that, adjusting for quality, the price of broadband Internet access in the US declined slightly from 2004 to 2009.
Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations: Lessons from the Internet
This chapter summarizes positive and negative contributions to the development of the Internet.
