Andrew Odlyzko

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center

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1.

Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet

ICEC2003: Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, pp. 355-366, N. Sadeh, ed., ACM, 2003
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2014
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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privacy, price discrimination, Internet and railroads

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Content is Not King

First Monday, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 2001
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Collective Hallucinations and Inefficient Markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s

Number of pages: 322 Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Railway Mania, bubbles, market inefficiency, financial manias

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The History of Communications and its Implications for the Internet

Number of pages: 160 Posted: 30 Aug 2000
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Network Neutrality, Search Neutrality, and the Never-Ending Conflict between Efficiency and Fairness in Markets

Review of Network Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 40-60, March 2009
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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network neutrality, common carriage, structural separtion, network myths

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Bubbles, Gullibility, and Other Challenges for Economics, Psychology, Sociology, and Information Sciences

First Monday, Vol. 15, No. 9, Sept. 2010
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2015
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Bubbles, Market Inefficiency, Irrational Investing, Internet Mania

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This Time is Different: An Example of a Giant, Wildly Speculative, and Successful Investment Mania

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 60, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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railway mania, bubbles, successful speculations

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Internet Growth: Is There a 'Moore's Law' for Data Traffic?

HANDBOOK OF MASSIVE DATA SETS, pp. 47-93, J. Abello, P. M. Pardalos, and M. G. C. Resende, eds., Kluwer, 2002
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2015
K.G. Coffman and Andrew Odlyzko
AT&T Labs - Research and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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The Evolution of Price Discrimination in Transportation and its Implications for the Internet

Review of Network Economics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 323-346, September 2004
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2013
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Price Discrimination, Transportation, Internet, Telecommunications

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Open Access, Library and Publisher Competition, and the Evolution of General Commerce

Evaluation Review, April 2014
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 10 May 2014
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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open access, price discrimination, ecommerce, friction-free capitalism

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Charles Mackay's Own Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Railway Mania

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Railway Mania, bubbles, market inefficiency, extraordinary popular delusions

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The Collapse of the Railway Mania, the Development of Capital Markets, and Robert Lucas Nash, a Forgotten Pioneer of Accounting and Financial Analysis

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 16 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Development of Accounting, Railway Mania, Bubbles, Financial Analysis

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Internet Pricing and the History of Communications

Computer Networks, Vol. 36, pp. 493-517, 2001
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2014
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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The Internet and Other Networks: Utilization Rates and Their Implications

Information Economics & Policy 12 (2000), pp. 341-365
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Oct 1998 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2015
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2018
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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South Sea Bubble, Isaac Newton, investment manias, market efficiency

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The Railway Mania of the 1860s and Financial Innovation

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 14 Jan 2022
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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1866 crisis, bubbles, railway manias, financial innovation, accounting fraud

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Financialization of the Early Victorian Economy and the London Stock Exchange

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Jun 2016
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Financialization, London Stock Exchange, Course of the Exchange, Market Efficiency, Victorian Financial Markets

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Flat Versus Metered Rates, Bundling, and ‘Bandwidth Hogs’

Proceedings of NetEcon 11: 6th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 May 2011 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2014
Andrew Odlyzko, Papak Nabipay and Zhi-Li Zhang
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Applied Economics and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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flat rates, bundling, usage sensitive pricing

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The Forgotten Discovery of Gravity Models and the Inefficiency of Early Railway Networks

OEconomial, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 157-192.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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gravity models, locality of traffic, early railway design

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Bagehot's Giant Bubble Failure

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Sep 2019
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Bagehot, bubbles, panic of 1866

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Dionysius Lardner, the Denigrated Sage of Early Railways

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Sep 2019
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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Dionysius Lardner, Railway Mania, bubbles

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Life, Law, and New Privacy in a World of Illusions and Manipulations

TPRC47: The 47th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy 2019
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Aug 2019
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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privacy, digital manipulation

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Too Expensive to Meter: The Influence of Transaction Costs in Transportation and Communication

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 366, No. 1872, pp. 2033-2046, 2008 , Presented at Royal Society Discussion Meeting Networks: Modelling and Control, September 2007
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2011
David Matthew Levinson and Andrew Odlyzko
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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transport, telecommunications, London Underground, London railways, collection costs, transaction costs

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Economically Irrational Pricing of 19th Century British Government Bonds

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 May 2014 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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pricing anomalies, violations of Efficient Markets Hypothesis, Law of One Price counterexamples

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Networks are Lightly Utilized, and Will Stay that Way

Review of Network Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2003
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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The Early British Railway System, the Casson Counterfactual, and the Effectiveness of Central Planning

Essays in Economic & Business History, vol. 34, 2016, pp. 60-94.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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industrial policy, railroad system planning, gravity models

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Supplementary Material for 'Economically Irrational Pricing of 19th Century British Government Bonds'

Number of pages: 184 Posted: 12 May 2014 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014
Andrew Odlyzko
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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pricing anomalies, violations of Efficient Markets Hypothesis, Law of One Price counterexamples

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Competitive Pricing of Information Goods: Subscription Pricing Versus Pay-Per-Use

Posted: 20 Apr 1999
Peter C. Fishburn and Andrew Odlyzko
AT&T - Research Department and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center

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