2. What Are We Not Doing When We Are Online?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Internet Supply and Demand
7. 1. Modularity and the Evolution of the Internet 21
8. 2. What Are We Not Doing When We Are Online? 55
9. II. Digitization, Economic Frictions, and New Markets
10. 3. The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales 89
11. 4. Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic Time Series 119
12. 5. Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms for Finding Books 137
13. 6. Ideology and Online News 169
14. 7. Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier 191
15. 8. Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda 219
16. 9. Some Economics of Private Digital Currency 257
17. III. Government Policy and Digitization
18. 10. Estimation of Treatment Effects from Combined Data: Identification versus Data Security 279
19. 11. Information Lost: Will the “Paradise” That Information Promises, to Both Consumer and Firm, Be “Lost” on Account of Data Breaches? The Epic is Playing Out 309
20. 12. Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship: Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period 357
21. 13. Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age: Economics and Methodology 385
22. 14. Digitization and the Quality of New Media Products: The Case of Music 407
23. 15. The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy: Evidence from Windows 443
24. Contributors 481
25. Author Index 485
26. Subject Index 491