Economics of Cyberspace Class Schedule
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Week 1, September 9
- Introduction to the course
- Carlson, “The Digital Economy” in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 15 (2004, pp. 245-264
- Baily and Lawrence, “Do We Have a New E-Conomy,” in The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 2, (May 2001), pp. 308-312.
Week 2, September 16
- The Microeconomics of Cyberspace
- Brown and Goolsbee, “Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive?” in The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, No. 3 (June 2002), pp. 481-507,
- Litan and Rivlin, “Projecting the Economic Impact of the Internet,” in The American Economic Review, Vol 91, No. 2, (May 2001), pp. 313-317),
- Meijers, “Diffusion of the Internet and Low Inflation in the Information Economy,” in Information Economics and Policy, 18 (2006), pp. 1-23
Week 3, September 23
- Industrial Reorganization via Cyberspace
- Brynjolfsson and Hitt, “Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance,” in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 4, (Autumn 2000), pp. 23-48
- Guthrie, “A Sociological Perspective on the Use of Technology: The Adoption of Internet Technology in U.S. Organizations,” in Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 42, No. 4, (Winter 1999), pp. 583-603
- Brynjolfsson, Hitt, and Yang, “Intangible Assets: Computers and Organizational Capital,” in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 2002, No. 1, (2002), pp. 137-181.
Week 4, September 30
- Banking in Cyberspace
- Simpson, “The Impact of the Internet in Banking: observations and evidence from developed and emerging markets,” in Telematics and Informatics, 19, (2002), pp. 315-330
- Beck, “Banking is Essential, Banks are Not: The Future of Financial Intermediation in the Age of the Internet,” in Netnomics, 3, (2001), pp. 7-22, Berger
- “The Economic Effects of Technological Progress: Evidence from the Banking Industry,” in Journal of Money Credit, and Banking, Vol. 35, No. 2, (April 2003)
- Courchane, Nickerson, and Sullivan, “Investment in Internet Banking as a Real Option: Theory and Tests,” in Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 12, (2002), pp. 347-363.
Week 5, October 7
- Democratization of Finance
- Rumiany, “Internet Bidding for Microcredit: making it work in the developed world, conceiving it for the developing world,” in Development Gateway, March 2007
- Barber and Odean, “The Internet and the Investor,” in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1, (Winter 2001), pp. 41-54.
Week 6, October 21
- Merchanting
- Goolsbee, "The Implications of Electronic Commerce for Fiscal Policy (and Vice Versa)," The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 13-23.
- Borenstein and Saloner, "Economics and Electronic Commerce," in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 3-12.
- Lucking-Reiley and Spulber, "Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce," in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 55-68
Week 7, October 28
- Traditional Media and the Internet
- Currah, "Hollywood Versus the Internet: the Media and Entertainment Industries in a Digital and Networked Economy," in Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 6 (2006), pp. 439-468
- Hong, "The Recent Growth of the Internet and Changes in Household-level Demand for Entertainment," in Information Economics and Policy, vol. 19 (2007), pp. 304-318
- Simon and Kadiyali, "The Effect of a Magazine's Free Digital Content on its Print Circulation: Cannibalization or Complementarity?", in Information Economics and Policy, vol. 19 (2007), pp. 344-361
Week 8, November 4
- Labor Markets
- Autor, "Wiring the Labor Market," in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 25-40
- Fountain, "Finding a Job in the Internet Age," in Social Forces, vol. 83, no. 3 (March 2005), pp. 1235-1262
Week 9, November 11
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Week 10, November 18
- Will Google Own Cyberspace?
Week 11, November 25
- No Class
Week 12, December 2
- eEmpires
