Michael D. Smith

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Professor of Information Technology and Marketing

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

United States

http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~mds

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1.

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 4,635 (1,584)
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Consumer Surplus, Product Variety, Electronic Markets

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Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assesment

MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. 4211-01
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2013
Brett Danaher and Michael D. Smith
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 3,933 (2,113)
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Piracy, regulation, digitial distribution, copyright policy, motion picture industry, natural experiment

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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 3,720 (2,338)
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Product Variety, The Long Tail, Search Costs, Recommender Systems, Strategy

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Assessing the Academic Literature Regarding the Impact of Media Piracy on Sales

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2013
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 3,187 (3,068)
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Piracy

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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 3,024 (3,357)
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Long Tail, electronic commerce, sales distribution, niche products, power law

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The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France

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The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2014
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang and Siwen Chen
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Marsh & McLennan Companies - Oliver Wyman
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Piracy, regulation, digital distribution, music industry, information goods, natural experiment

The Effect of Graduated Response Anti‐Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France

The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 62, Issue 3, pp. 541-553, 2014
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Sep 2014
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang and Siwen Chen
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Marsh & McLennan Companies - Oliver Wyman
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Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Anindya Ghose, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 2,483 (4,677)
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Publisher welfare, retailer welfare, consumer surplus, price competition, used books sales, electronic markets

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Location, Location, Location: An Analysis of Profitability of Position in Online Advertising Markets

Agarwal, A., K. Hosanagar, M. D. Smith (2011), “Location, location and location: An analysis of profitability of position in online advertising markets,” Journal of Marketing Research, 48, 1057-1073.
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2014
Ashish Agarwal, Kartik Hosanagar and Michael D. Smith
University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 2,242 (5,546)
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Sponsored search, ad placement, hierarchical Bayesian estimation, online advertising, online auctions, search engine marketing

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Consumer Decision-Making at an Internet Shopbot

MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. 4206-01
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 2,067 (6,346)
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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 2,036 (6,502)
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Search costs, shopbot, product differentiation, random coefficients choice model

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All Reviews are Not Created Equal: The Disaggregate Impact of Reviews and Reviewers at Amazon.Com

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2014
Pei-Yu Chen, Samita Dhanasobhon and Michael D. Smith
Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 2,023 (6,566)
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electronic commerce, recommendation system, digital word-of-mouth, econometrics

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The Impact of Ebook Distribution on Print Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2017
Hailiang Chen, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Michael D. Smith
City University of Hong Kong - Department of Information Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,934 (7,143)
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Digital distribution, channel, publishing industry, natural experiment

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The Economics of Peer-to-Peer Networks

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Feb 2004
Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Peer-to-peer, club goods, public goods, network externalities

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An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Pre-Release Movie Piracy on Box-Office Revenue

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2014
Liye Ma, Alan Montgomery, Param Vir Singh and Michael D. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,617 (9,613)
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Movies, Digital Piracy, Theatrical Revenue

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The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2018
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Piracy, regulation, digital distribution, motion picture industry, natural experiment

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Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy

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Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2008
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,450 (11,242)
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Information goods, Movie broadcasts, movie promotion, DVD Sales, Broadcast flag, consumer surplus

Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy

TPRC 2006
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2012
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Networks

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Sep 2003
Atip Asvanund, Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan and Michael D. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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peer-to-peer, file sharing, empirical, network externalities, network size

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The Dual Impact of Movie Piracy on Box-Office Revenue: Cannibalization and Promotion

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Feb 2016
Liye Ma, Alan Montgomery and Michael D. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,428 (11,744)

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Motion Pictures, Piracy, Box Office Revenue, Hidden Markov Models, Hierarchical Bayesian Models

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The Great Equalizer? Consumer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4208-01
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 19 Nov 2001
Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,427 (11,757)
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Internet, Choice Models, Brand, Service Quality, Partitioned Pricing, Intermediaries

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Converting Pirates Without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Brett Danaher, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,403 (12,124)
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digital distribution, channel conflict, cannibalization, iTunes, DVD

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Piracy or Promotion? The Impact of Broadband Internet Penetration on Dvd Sales

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2014
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 1,158 (16,349)
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Information goods, Internet penetration, movie promotion, DVD Sales

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The Consumer Online Purchase Decision: A Model of Consideration Set Formation and Buyer Conversion Rate Across Market Leaders and Market Followers

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Jan 2004
Neveen Awad, Michael D. Smith and Mayuram S. Krishnan
Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 1,019 (19,724)

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Consumer search costs, competition, consideration set formation, empirical, survey

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Service Adoption and Pricing of Content Delivery Network (CDN) Services

Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 09, pp. 1579-1593
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
Kartik Hosanagar, John Chuang, Ramayya Krishnan and Michael D. Smith
University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 777 (29,252)
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Content delivery networks, internet, pricing, bursty traffic, web hosting, media delivery

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Measuring Information Diffusion in an Online Community

Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jun 2011
Rajiv Garg, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 627 (39,122)

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information diffusion, peer influence, new content discovery, online music community, social influence, empirical research, data mining

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Website Blocking Revisited: The Effect of the UK November 2014 Blocks on Consumer Behavior

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Apr 2016
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Piracy, Regulation, Digital Distribution, Motion Picture Industry, Natural Experiment

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Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach

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Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Sep 2004
Atip Asvanund, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Peer-to-peer, club economics, dynamic network, empirical

Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Feb 2005
Atip Asvanund, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 157 (179,230)
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Peer-to-peer, club economics, dynamic network, empirical

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Digital Business Models for Peer-to-Peer Networks: Analysis and Economic Issues

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Jul 2006
Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith, Zhulei Tang and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 587 (42,660)
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Peer-to-peer networks, digital business models, public goods, club goods, free riding

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Prospects for Personalization on the Internet

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Jul 2008
Alan Montgomery and Michael D. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 585 (42,871)

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Interactive marketing, personalization

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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 509 (51,200)
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Long Tail, Superstar, Product Variety, Sales Concentration, Information Technology

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Gaining Trust Through Online Privacy Protection: Self-Regulation, Mandatory Standards, or Caveat Emptor

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2015
Zhulei Tang, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Michael D. Smith
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 486 (54,217)
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Privacy, asymmetric information, Internet, consumer surplus, producer surplus, social welfare

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Static and Dynamic Pricing in Online Markets

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Karen Clay, Michael D. Smith and Eric Wolff
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 471 (56,439)

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Internet, pricing, dynamic pricing, static pricing, books, oligopoly

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Internet Effects on Retail Markets

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2015
Michael D. Smith and Alejandro Zentner
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
Downloads 446 (60,413)

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Do Search Engines Influence Media Piracy? Evidence from a Randomized Field Study

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Liron Sivan, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 441 (61,254)

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search engines, piracy, copyright, anti-piracy

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Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?

Ashish Agarwal, Kartik Hosanagar, Michael D. Smith (2015) Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?, Information Systems Research 26(4):695-713, DOI 10.1287/isre.2015.0593
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016
Ashish Agarwal, Kartik Hosanagar and Michael D. Smith
University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 430 (63,123)

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Sponsored search, Organic search, ad placement, hierarchical Bayesian estimation, online advertising, online auctions, search engine marketing

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Windows of Opportunity: The Impact of Piracy and Delayed International Availability on DVD Sales

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 May 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2016
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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DVD sales, release windows, digital piracy, motion picture industry

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An Empirical Analysis of Digital Music Bundling Strategies

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Mar 2014
Brett Danaher, Yan Huang, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Information Goods, Bundling, Digital Music, Price Elasticity, Natural Experiment

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Information Discovery and the Long Tail of Motion Picture Content

Management Information Systems Quarterly (2014), 38(4), 1057-1078
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2017
Anuj Kumar, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 315 (90,690)

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Incomplete information, product discovery, multichannel distribution, movie industry, cannibalization, movie broadcast, DVD sales and rental, Long Tail, sales distribution

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Analysis of the Potential Market for Out-of-Print eBooks

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Sep 2012
Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang and Yi Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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eBooks, out-of-print books, copyright, propensity score, consumer surplus, Kindle

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Internet Exchanges for Used Digital Goods

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2014
Rahul Telang and Michael D. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 264 (109,621)
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Information Goods, Price elasticity, Digital distribution, First sale doctrine, Used Products, Electronic Markets

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Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms

Downloads 259 (111,897)
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Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 14, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Jun 2013
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 231 (125,234)
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Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms

NBER Working Paper No. w19150
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2015
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 28 (467,184)
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Internet Adoption and the Survival of Print Newspapers: A Country-Level Examination

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Mar 2015
Daegon Cho, Michael D. Smith and Alejandro Zentner
KAIST College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
Downloads 248 (117,022)

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Culling the Herd: Using Real World Randomized Experiments to Measure Social Bias with Known Costly Goods

Management Science, Volume 62, Issue 9, February 15, 2016
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2017
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Pedro Ferreira, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
School of Business and Economics, Católica-Lisbon, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Randomized Experiment, Likes, Ratings, Video-on-Demand

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How Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2014
Alejandro Zentner, Michael D. Smith and Cuneyd Kaya
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Texas at Dallas
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Long Tail, movie rentals, natural experiment, empirical estimation

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Standards Competition in the Presence of Digital Conversion Technology: An Empirical Analysis of the Flash Memory Card Market

MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014
Charles Z. Liu, Chris F. Kemerer, Sandra Slaughter and Michael D. Smith
University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology (Deceased) and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 127 (212,534)
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Network effects, standards competition, conversion technologies, flash memory, digital goods

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The Perfect Storm: Using Snowstorms to Analyze the Effect of Theatrical Attendance on the Demand for Subsequently Released DVDs

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Aug 2015
Patrick Choi, Peter Boatwright and Michael D. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 117 (225,989)

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Movie sales, DVD sales, snowstorms, empirical analysis

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An Empirical Analysis of Frequency and Location of Concerts in the Digital Age

Information Economics and Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2017
Daegon Cho, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
KAIST College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 72 (308,917)

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Concert, Music Industry, Long Tail, Geographic Distribution

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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age: Economics and Methodology

NBER Working Paper No. w19634
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Nov 2013
Brett Danaher, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads 56 (351,374)

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A Tangled Web: Should Online Review Portals Display Fraudulent Reviews?

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Dec 2018
Uttara M Ananthakrishnan, Beibei Li and Michael D. Smith
Michael G. Foster School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Fraudulent Reviews, Randomized Experiment, User Trust, Online Platform, Product Search Engine

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Discovery of Music through Peers in an Online Community

44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2011)
Posted: 20 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2018
Rajiv Garg, Rahul Telang and Michael D. Smith
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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information diffusion, peer influence, new content discovery, online music community, social influence

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Compatibility and Proprietary Standards: The Impact of Conversion Technologies in IT Markets with Network Effects

Information Systems Research, v. 22, n. 1, pp. 188-207, March 2011
Posted: 18 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2014
Charles Z. Liu, Esther Gal-Or, Chris F. Kemerer and Michael D. Smith
University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Network Effects, Conversion Technologies, Compatibility, Technology Standards, Digital Goods, Network Externalities