Erik Brynjolfsson

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2011
Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt and Heekyung Hellen Kim
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and MIT - Sloan School of Management
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Citation 148

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Data, Productivity, Data-driven Decion-making, Information Technology

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Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Duncan Simester
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Purdue University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 9,313 (1,358)
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search cost, product variety, concentration, long tail, Internet, electronic commerce

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2014
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 7,928 (1,786)
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Social Networks, Productivity, Information Worker, IT, Multitasking, Dynamic Panel Data, System GMM

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w13172
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2022
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 260 (249,183)
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Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Oct 2003
Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin M. Hitt
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 6,749 (2,353)
Citation 119

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From Niches to Riches: Anatomy of the Long Tail

Sloan Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 67-71, Summer 2006
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2015
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Michael D. Smith
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Purdue University and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 6,230 (2,700)
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Product Variety, The Long Tail, Search Costs, Recommender Systems, Strategy

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Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 May 2003 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2017
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Michael D. Smith
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Purdue University and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 5,669 (3,178)
Citation 137

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Consumer Surplus, Product Variety, Electronic Markets

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Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assesment

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Nov 2001
Michael D. Smith, Joseph Bailey and Erik Brynjolfsson
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Maryland and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 5,207 (3,704)
Citation 34

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Which Came First, it or Productivity? Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Feb 2020
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and D. J. Wu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Georgia Institute of Technology - Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business
Downloads 5,053 (3,897)
Citation 87

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Business Value of Information Technology, Productivity, Simultaneity, Causality, Software Investment, Production Function, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management

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The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Lynn Wu and Erik Brynjolfsson
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 4,194 (5,335)
Citation 95

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Online Search, Prediction, Housing Prices, Real Estate, Google Trends

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The Longer Tail: The Changing Shape of Amazon’s Sales Distribution Curve

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 22 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Michael D. Smith
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Purdue University and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 4,035 (5,663)
Citation 27

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Long Tail, electronic commerce, sales distribution, niche products, power law

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Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits and Efficiency

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Jul 1997
Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 2,838 (9,935)
Citation 87

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Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 May 2007
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 2,460 (12,524)
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Networks, Information Diffusion, Productivity, Email

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A Nearly Perfect Market?

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Oct 2003 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
Erik Brynjolfsson, Astrid Andrea Dick and Michael D. Smith
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 2,223 (14,733)
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Search costs, shopbot, product differentiation, random coefficients choice model

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Consumer Decision-Making at an Internet Shopbot

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Nov 2001
Michael D. Smith and Erik Brynjolfsson
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 2,216 (14,828)
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Scale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Research Paper No. 07-016
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2008
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell and Feng Zhu
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, IMD International and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 2,178 (15,283)
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Business Process Replication, Hypercompetition, Creative Destruction, Information Technology, Turbulence, Concentration

Digital Resilience: How Work-From-Home Readiness Affects Firm Performance

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2023
Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and University of Massachusetts Boston - Department of Accounting and Finance
Downloads 1,952 (17,885)
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Digital Resilience, IT Capability, Work From Home, Business value of IT, Human resources, Strategic management of IT, Disaster Management

Digital Resilience: How Work-from-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w28588
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2023
Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and University of Massachusetts Boston - Department of Accounting and Finance
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Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks using Sociometric Badges: Predicting Productivity in an IT Configuration Task

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 May 2008
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 2,089 (16,339)
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Social Networks, Face-to-Face Communication, Information Worker, Productivity

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Data in Action: Data-Driven Decision Making and Predictive Analytics in U.S. Manufacturing

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3422397
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Jul 2019
Erik Brynjolfsson and Kristina McElheran
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Toronto - Strategic Management
Downloads 2,022 (17,191)
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data, analytics, productivity, management practices, information technology, data-driven decision making

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Bundling and Competition on the Internet

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Aug 2000
Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 1,990 (17,634)
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IT, AI and the Growth of Intangible Capital

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2020
Prasanna Tambe, Lorin M. Hitt, Daniel Rock and Erik Brynjolfsson
Wharton School, U. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 1,958 (18,138)
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Intangible Capital, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy, MIT Press, 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Oct 2013
Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 1,944 (18,344)

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Data in Action: Data-Driven Decision Making in U.S. Manufacturing

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-16-06, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2722502
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Jan 2016
Erik Brynjolfsson and Kristina McElheran
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Toronto - Strategic Management
Downloads 1,933 (18,529)
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Global Village or Cyberbalkans: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jul 2005
Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Erik Brynjolfsson
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 1,847 (19,877)
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Globalization, Information Economy, Information Flows, Computerization of Society, Organizational Structure, Economic Impacts, Balkanization, Social Networks

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Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, HR Analytics and Information Technology

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Lynn Wu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 1,759 (21,418)
Citation 32

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Incentive Systems, Information Technology, Monitoring, Complementarity, Enterprise Systems, ERP, Productivity, Production Function, Principal-Agent Model

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The Great Equalizer? Consumer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 19 Nov 2001
Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,706 (22,422)
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Internet, Choice Models, Brand, Service Quality, Partitioned Pricing, Intermediaries

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Moneyball for Academics: Network Analysis for Predicting Research Impact

Bertsimas, D., Brynjolfsson, E., Reichman, S. and Silberholz, J., 2015. OR Forum—Tenure analytics: Models for predicting research impact. Operations Research, 63(6), pp.1246-1261.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,630 (24,036)
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Citation analysis, Academic impact, Analytics, Networks

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Harnessing the Digital Lens to Measure and Manage Information Work

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Nov 2010
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy?

Brynjolfsson, Erik, Tom Mitchell, and Daniel Rock. "What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy?." In AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 108, pp. 43-47. 2018.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Erik Brynjolfsson, Tom Mitchell and Daniel Rock
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 1,525 (26,602)
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machine learning, occupational change, technology, job design

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Citation 43

Management in America

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-13-01
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Jan 2013
Stanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Downloads 1,289 (33,561)
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management, productivity, organization

Management in America

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 13-01
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Stanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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management, productivity, organization

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Human Capital Acquisition in Response to Data Breaches

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2024
Stanford University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business
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Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Human Capital Acquisition, Value of Data and Privacy, Incident Response

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Shared Information Goods

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 67
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Oct 1998
Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson and Douglas Lichtman
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data

Brynjolfsson, E., Geva, T., and Reichman, S. 2016. “Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data”, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 941-961.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2020
Erik Brynjolfsson, Tomer Geva and Shachar Reichman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management
Downloads 1,353 (31,760)
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Prediction, Big Data, Search Trends, Data Selection, Crowdsourcing

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GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20210319
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2025
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Welfare measurement, GDP, Productivity, mismeasurement, productivity slowdown, new goods, free goods, online choice experiments, GDP-B

Gdp-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w25695
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, University of British Columbia (UBC), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Battle of the Retail Channels: How Product Selection and Geography Drive Cross-Channel Competition

Management Science, forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 04 May 2011
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Mohammad Saifur Rahman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Purdue University and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
Downloads 1,254 (35,504)
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Internet markets, electronic commerce, competition, retailing, channel, niche products, geography

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Valuing IT-Related Intangible Assets

MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 26 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2015
Adam Saunders and Erik Brynjolfsson
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 1,073 (44,561)
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IT value, market value, IT-related intangibles, IT capabilities, intangible assets, R&D value, brand value

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The Power of Prediction: Predictive Analytics, Workplace Complements, and Business Performance

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 May 2021
Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin and Kristina McElheran
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Digital Economy Lab and University of Toronto - Strategic Management
Downloads 941 (53,524)
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digitization, data, predictive analytics, productivity, complementarities

Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi
Washington University in St. Louis, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Uber Technologies Inc.
Downloads 809 (64,797)
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Moral Hazard, Information Asymmetry, Uber, Digital Platforms, Market Design

Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis

NBER Working Paper No. w25015
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi
Washington University in St. Louis, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Uber Technologies Inc.
Downloads 111 (531,382)
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Sociometric Badges: A New Tool for I.S. Research

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 22 Mar 2011
MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, MIT - Media Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 823 (64,296)
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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui and Meng Liu
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and Washington University in St. Louis
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Artificial Intelligence, International Trade, Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Digital Platforms

Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform

NBER Working Paper No. w24917
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui and Meng Liu
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and Washington University in St. Louis
Downloads 103 (562,331)
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The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-33
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Mar 2019
Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 430 (143,843)
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The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies

NBER Working Paper No. w25148
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Information Technology, Repeated Contracts and the Number of Suppliers

Forthcoming, Management Science
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2019
Sinan Aral, Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 705 (78,812)
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Buyer-Supplier Relationships, Optimal Number of Suppliers, Transaction Cost Economics, Incomplete Contracts, Coordination Theory, Search Costs, IT Outsourcing, IT Vendors

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Long Tails Versus Superstars: The Effect of IT on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2014
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Michael D. Smith
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Purdue University and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 693 (80,523)
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Long Tail, Superstar, Product Variety, Sales Concentration, Information Technology

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Innovation Incentives for Information Goods

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4780-10
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Erik Brynjolfsson and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Digital Goods, Bundling, Innovation, Incentives, Mechanism Design, Information, Online Content

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Antecedents and Consequences of Mutual Knowledge in Teams

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Nov 2008
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 552 (107,543)
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Mutual Knowledge, Diversity, Social Networks, Demography, Geographic Dispersion, Information Distance, Teams, Performance

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The Role of Advertisers and Platforms in Monetizing Misinformation: Descriptive and Experimental Evidence

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2024
Wajeeha Ahmad, Ananya Sen, Charles E. Eesley and Erik Brynjolfsson
Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 543 (109,810)
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The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Jun 2024 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2025
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta Platforms Inc and Northwestern University
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The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w32846
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Aug 2024
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, Meta, Meta, Stanford University, Meta Platforms Inc and Northwestern University
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Social Advertising Effectiveness Across Products: A Large-Scale Field Experiment

Marketing Science, forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2022
Shan Huang, Sinan Aral, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Erik Brynjolfsson
The University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Purdue University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 532 (112,645)
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social networks; social influence; social advertising; product; heterogeneity; field experiments

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Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics

NBER Working Paper No. w24001
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (15) 7250-7255, April 2019.
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 May 2018 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2019
Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis and Felix Eggers
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing
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Consumer Surplus, Digital Goods, Free Goods, GDP, Choice Experiments

Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w24514
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers and Avinash Collis
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and Carnegie Mellon University
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The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-curve(s)

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2025
University of Toronto - Strategic Management, University of Oklahoma, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and U.S. Census Bureau
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JEL Classification: D24, O33, M11, L60, Artificial Intelligence, General Purpose Technology, Manufacturing, Organizational Change, Productivity

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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w7136
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Jan 2000 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, Meng Liu and George F. Westerman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Washington University in St. Louis and MIT Sloan School of Management
Downloads 359 (178,228)
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workplace computerization, routine-biased technological change, persistence, wage premium, grit, labor economics

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Why Not One Big Database? Principles for Data Ownership

Decision Support Systems, Vol. 15, pp. 267-284, 1995, MIT Sloan Research Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Erik Brynjolfsson and Stuart Madnick
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Distributed Database Design, Incomplete Contracts, Centralization, Decentralization, Standards, Outsourcing, Converters, Economic Models

54.

Analysis of the Relationship between Virtual Goods Trading and Performance of Virtual Worlds

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Oct 2011
Gwangjae Jung, Byungtae Lee, Byungjoon Yoo and Erik Brynjolfsson
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) - Management Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul National University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Virtual economy, virtual worlds, real-money trading, online game

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Covid-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at Us Data

NBER Working Paper No. w27344
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Upwork, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan
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Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin and Xiupeng Wang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Digital Economy Lab and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business
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IT Investment, Firm Size, Labor Shares, Industrial Concentration

Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration

NBER Working Paper No. w31065
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin and Xiupeng Wang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Digital Economy Laboratory and Boston University
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57.

Measuring the Impact of Free Goods on Real Household Consumption

AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol.110, May 2020
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, University of British Columbia (UBC), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Welfare measurement, GDP, Productivity, mismeasurement, productivity slowdown, new goods, free goods, online choice experiments, GDP-B

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What Drives Differences in Management?

NBER Working Paper No. w23300
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023
Stanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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What Drives Differences in Management?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 May 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Stanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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management, productivity, competition, learning

What Drives Differences in Management?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11995
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 May 2017
Stanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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Competition, learning, Management, productivity

Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven: A Field Experiment on eBay

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Apr 2023
Sagit Bar-Gill, Erik Brynjolfsson and Nir Hak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Uber Technologies, Inc.
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Data-driven decision making, analytics, productivity, information technology, small and medium enterprises, management practices

Helping Small Businesses Become More Data-Driven: A Field Experiment on Ebay

NBER Working Paper No. w31089
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2023
Sagit Bar-Gill, Erik Brynjolfsson and Nir Hak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Uber
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60.

Generative Ai at Work

NBER Working Paper No. w31161
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2023
Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li and Lindsey Raymond
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction

AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol.108: 473-76, 2018.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 May 2018 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2019
Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers and Avinash Collis
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and Carnegie Mellon University
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A.I. Adoption in America: Who, What, and Where

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Jan 2024
University of Toronto - Strategic Management, University of British Columbia (UBC), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies - US Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies and U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Adoption, Diffusion, Innovation, Entrepreneurship

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LLM Time Machines: Valuing Digital Goods Over Time

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Mar 2025
Avinash Collis, Felix Eggers and Erik Brynjolfsson
Carnegie Mellon University, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey

NBER Working Paper No. w28290
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 04 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2023
U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Toronto - Strategic Management, U.S. Census Bureau, US Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies and Center for Economic Studies - US Census Bureau
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Digital Capital and Superstar Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w28285
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2023
Prasanna Tambe, Lorin M. Hitt, Daniel Rock and Erik Brynjolfsson
Wharton School, U. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w25585
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 29 May 2023
Seth Benzell and Erik Brynjolfsson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

NBER Working Paper No. w26601
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 13 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
Harvard University, Boston University, Olin Business School - Washington University in St. Louis and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Firm Size Distribution Goes Online: The Evolution of eBay Firms' Sales Distribution

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Jun 2023
Sagit Bar-Gill and Erik Brynjolfsson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Firm size, sales distribution, distribution fit, market concentration, firm growth

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The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments

NBER Working Paper No. w31062
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 17 May 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), US Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, University of British Columbia (UBC), Halle Institute for Economic Research and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Gains from Product Variety: Evidence from a Large Digital Platform

NBER Working Paper No. w30802
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Erik Brynjolfsson, Long Chen and Xijie Gao
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Luohan Academy and Luohan Academy
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Ai Adoption in America: Who, What, and Where

NBER Working Paper No. w31788
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Oct 2023
University of Toronto - Strategic Management, University of British Columbia (UBC), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies - US Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies and U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies
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The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality

NBER Working Paper No. w31670
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Sep 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, Meta, Meta, Stanford University, Meta Platforms Inc, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Stanford University
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How Many Americans Work Remotely? A Survey of Surveys and Their Measurement Issues

NBER Working Paper No. w31193
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 May 2023 Last Revised: 15 May 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Stanford University, Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section, Economic Innovation Group, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and MIT Sloan
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74.

IT and Management in America

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9886
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Jun 2014
Stanford University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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IT, management, organization, productivity

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The Role of Advertisers and Platforms in Monetizing Misinformation: Descriptive and Experimental Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w32187
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2024
Wajeeha Ahmad, Ananya Sen, Charles E. Eesley and Erik Brynjolfsson
Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Rapid Adoption of Data-Driven Decision-Making

American Economic Review, Vol. 106, No. 5, 2016, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2911169
Posted: 04 Feb 2017
Erik Brynjolfsson and Kristina McElheran
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Toronto - Strategic Management

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data-driven decision-making, big data, analytics, technological change, diffusion, productivity

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What the GDP Gets Wrong (Why Managers Should Care)

Sloan Management Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 95-96
Posted: 06 Oct 2009
Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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Information Technology, GDP, Internet

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The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation and Productivity

Management Science, 58(5), 2012, 843-859. 2012
Posted: 23 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2014
Prasanna Tambe, Lorin M. Hitt and Erik Brynjolfsson
Wharton School, U. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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: Information Technology, Productivity, Organizational Practices, External Focus, Complementarities, High Performance Work Practices, Product Development, High-Tech Clusters