Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers*

By Austan Goolsbee, Peter J. Klenow. Journal law and economy, 2002

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Evidence on Contagion in Earnings Management (2015, unknown): “This empirical specification is similar in spirit to the Goolsbee and Klenow (2002) study of the diffusion in the use of personal computers. Goolsbee and Klenow (2002) rely on (i)”
Measuring the Effect of Music Downloads on Music Purchases (2005, methodology): “Analogous US data from Forrester have been used extensively in economic literature related to the internet (Goolsbee, 2000 and 2001; Goolsbee and Brown, 2002; and Goolsbee and Klenow, 2002).”
Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique (2006, unknown): “…is informative of whether adoption decisions are correlated within social networks, and so follows an approach similar to Bertrand et al. (2000) and Goolsbee and Klenow (2002).31 The key empirical challenge is to identify whether adoption choices are correlated due to social effects or simply…”
Network effects and the choice of mobile phone operator (2006, background): “Recent empirical studies include Goolsbee and Klenow (2002) on home computers, Berndt et al. (2003) on anti-ulcer drugs, Dranove and Gandal (2003) on DVD-players, Rysman (2004) on yellow pages and Gowrisankaran and Stavins (2004) on electronic payment.”
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure (2015, background): “…al. (2009)), ﬁnancial decision-making (Duﬂo and Saez (2003); Hong et al. (2004); Banerjee et al. (2012)), technology adoption (Conley and Udry (2010); Goolsbee and Klenow (2002); Henkel and Maurer (2010); Maertens (2012)), criminal behavior (Bayer et al. (2009); Glaeser et al. (1996)),…”
Preference Minorities and the Internet (2011, methodology): “To implement our analysis, we construct a preference minority index (hereafter, the PM index) for each zip code equal to [1 – (Target population/Total population)] (see Forman, Ghose, and Wiesenfeld 2008; Goolsbee and Klenow 2002; Sinai and Waldfogel 2004).”
Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels (2012, methodology): “, Moretti (2008) examines the effect of movie reviews on box office revenues), or by assuming a linear probability model (Goolsbee and Klenow 2002; Duflo and Saez 2003; Gowrisankaran and Stavins 2004; Oster and Thorton 2009).”
Measuring the Effect of File Sharing on Music Purchases* (2006, methodology): “Analogous U.S. data from Forrester have been used extensively in the economic literature related to the Internet (Goolsbee 2000, 2001; Goolsbee and Brown 2002; Goolsbee and Klenow 2002).”