Research

 Hughes, Justin, Michael D. Smith. 2024. Do Copyright Professors Pay Attention to Economists?: How Empirical Evidence on Copyright Piracy Appears (or Not) in Law Literature. Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, Forthcoming.

Van Alstyne, Marshall, Michael D. Smith, Herbert Lin. 2023. Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, April, 66(4), 26-28.

 Manzoor, Emaad, George Chen, Dokyun Lee, Michael D. Smith. 2023. Influence via Ethos: On the Persuasive Power of Reputation in Deliberation Online. Management Science. Forthcoming. (Articles in Advance: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4762)

 Zeng, Helen (Shuxuan), Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith. 2023. Internet Governance Through Site Shutdowns: The Impact of Shutting Down Two Major Commercial Sex Advertising Sites. Management Science. Forthcoming. (Articles in Advance: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4498)

Jaeung Sim, Daegon Cho, Michael D. Smith. 2022. Bestseller Lists and Product Discovery in the Subscription-based Market: Evidence from Music Streaming. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 194, 550-567.

Zhou, Mi, George Chen, Pedro Ferreira, Michael Smith. 2021. Consumer Behavior in the Online Classroom: Using Video Analytics and Machine Learning to Understand the Consumption of Video Courseware. Journal of Marketing Research. 58(6) 1079-1100.

 Ananthakrishnan, Uttara, Beibei Li, Michael D. Smith. 2020. A Tangled Web: The Impact of Displaying Fraudulent Reviews on Product Search Engines. Information Systems Research. 31(3) 950-971.

Danaher, Brett, Jonathan Hersh, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2020. The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior. Management Information Systems Quarterly. 44(2) 631-659.

 Sivan, Liron, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2019. Do Search Engines Influence Media Piracy? Evidence from a Randomized Field Study. Management Information Systems Quarterly. 43(4) 1143-1154.

 Chen, Hailiang, Yu Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2019. The Impact of E-book Distribution on Print Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment. Management Science. 65(1) 19-31.

 Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang, Yi Zhang. 2019. I Want You Back: An Empirical Analysis of the Interplay Between Legal Availability and Movie Piracy, International Journal of the Economics of Business. 26(1) 199-216.

 de Matos, Miguel Godinho, Pedro Ferriera, Michael D. Smith. 2018. The Effect of Subscription Video-On-Demand on Piracy: Evidence from a Household Level Randomized Experiment. Management Science. 64(12) 5610-5630.

Cho, Daegon, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2017. An Empirical Analysis of Frequency and Location of Concerts in the Digital Age. Information Economics and Policy. 40, 41-47.

 Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith. 2017. Digital Piracy, Film Quality, and Social Welfare. George Mason University Law Review. 24(4:Summer) 923-938.

Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth, Hal Varian, Michael D. Smith. 2017. Super Returns? The Effects of Ads on Product Demand. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 15(1), 1-28.
(2018 Dick Wittink Award for the best paper published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics)

Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2017. Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Evidence and Conclusions. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. 60(2) 68-75.

Daegon Cho, Michael D. Smith, Alejandro Zentner. 2016. Internet Adoption and the Survival of Print Newspapers: A Country-Level Examination. Information Economics and Policy. 37, 13-19.

Godinho de Matos, Miguel, Pedro Ferreira, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2016. Culling the herd: Using real world randomized experiments to measure social bias with known costly goods. Management Science. 62(9) 2563-2580.

 Agarwal, Ashish, Kartik Hosanagar, Michael D. Smith. 2015. Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance? Information Systems Research. 26(4) 695-713.

Gong, Jing, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2015. Substitution or Promotion? The Impact of Price Discounts on Cross-Channel Sales of Digital Movies. Journal of Retailing. 91(2) 343-357.

Danaher, Brett, Yan Huang, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2015. An Empirical Analysis of Digital Music Bundling Strategies. Management Science, Special Issue on Business Analytics, 60(6) 1413-1433.

Ma, Liye, Alan Montgomery, Param Singh, Michael D. Smith. 2014. An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Pre-Release Movie Piracy on Box Office Revenue. Information Systems Research. 25(3) 590-603.

Kumar, Anuj, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2014. Information Discovery and the Long Tail of Motion Picture Content. Management Information Systems Quarterly. 38(4) 1057-1078.

 Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang, Siwen Chen. 2014. The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France. Journal of Industrial Economics. 62(3) 541-553.

Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith. 2014. Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales. International Journal of Industrial Organization. 33 1-8.

Zentner, Alejandro, Michael D. Smith, Cuneyd Kaya. 2013. How Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online. Management Science. 59(11) 2622-2634.

Kemerer, Chris F., Charles Z. Liu, Michael D. Smith. 2013. Strategies for Tomorrow’s ‘Winners-Take-Some’ Digital Goods Markets. Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. 56(5) 76-82.

  Liu, Charles, Chris Kemerer, Sandra Slaughter, Michael D. Smith. 2012. Standards Competition in the Presence of Digital Conversion Technology: An Empirical Analysis of the Flash Memory Card Market. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 36(3) 921-942.

Garg, Rajiv, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2011. Measuring Information Diffusion in an Online Community. Journal of Management Information Systems, 28(2) 11-37.

Agarwal, Ashish, Kartik Hosanagar, Michael D. Smith. 2011. Location, Location, Location: An Analysis of Profitability and Position in Online Advertising Markets. Journal of Marketing Research, 48 1057-1073.

Liu, Charles, Esther Gal-Or, Chris Kemerer, Michael D. Smith. 2011. Compatibility and Proprietary Standards: The Impact of Conversion Technologies in IT-Markets with Network Effects. Information Systems Research, 22(1) 188-207.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2010. Long Tails and Superstars: The Effect of IT on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns. Information Systems Research 20th Anniversary Special Issue, 21(4) 736-747.

 Danaher, Brett, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2010. Converting Pirates without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy. Marketing Science, 29(6) 1138-1151.

Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang. 2010. Piracy or Promotion? The Impact of Broadband Internet Penetration on DVD Sales. Information Economics and Policy, Special Issue on the Economics of Digital Piracy, 21 289-298.

 Tang, Zhulei, Alan Montgomery, Michael D. Smith. 2010. The Impact of Shopbot Use on Prices and Price Dispersion: Evidence from Online Book Retailing. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28 579-590.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, Astrid A. Dick, Michael D. Smith. 2010. A Nearly Perfect Market? Differentiation Versus Price in Consumer Choice. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 8(1) 1-33.

Montgomery, Alan, Michael D. Smith. 2009. Prospects for Personalization on the Internet. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 23(2) 130-137.

  Smith, Michael, Rahul Telang. 2009. Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 33(2) 312-338.

  Hosanagar, Kartik, John Chuang, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith. 2008. Service Adoption and Pricing of Content Delivery Network Services. Management Science, 54(9) 1579-1593.

 Tang, Zhulei, Yu Hu, Michael D. Smith. 2008. Gaining Trust Through Online Privacy Protection: Self Regulation, Mandatory Standards, or Caveat Emptor. Journal of Management Information Systems, 24(4) 152-173.

 Krishnan, Ramayya, Michael D. Smith, Zhulei Tang, Rahul Telang. 2007. Digital Business Models for Peer-to-Peer Networks: Analysis and Economic Issues. Review of Network Economics, 6(2) 194-213.

Ghose, Anindya, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2006. Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact. Information Systems Research, 17(1) 3-19. (Runner-up for Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research in 2006.)

 Asvanund, Atip, Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith. 2004. An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-To-Peer Music Sharing Networks. Information Systems Research, 15(2) 155-174.

Krishnan, Ramayya, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2003. The Economics of Peer-To-Peer Networks. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications, 5(3) 31-44.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu Hu, Michael Smith. 2003. Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety. Management Science, 49(11) 1580-1596. (Reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Economics of E-Commerce, Baye and Morgan, eds. 2015.)

Smith, Michael. 2002. The Impact of Shopbots on Electronic Markets. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 30(4) 442-450.

  Smith, Michael, Erik Brynjolfsson. 2001. Customer Decision Making at an Internet Shopbot: Brand Still Matters. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 49(4) 541-558.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, Michael Smith. 2000. Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers. Management Science, 46(4) 563-585.
(Reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Economics of E-Commerce, Baye and Morgan, eds. 2015; and The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Economics of Digitization, Greenstein, Goldfarb, and Tucker, eds., 2013.)

“Pro Sports Has a Piracy Problem,” Harvard Business Review, Digital. February 14, 2024 (with Brett Danaher and Rahul Telang). (https://hbr.org/2021/08/its-time-to-update-section-230)

“The Public Is Giving Up on Higher Ed,” The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 5, 2023. (https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-public-is-giving-up-on-higher-ed)

“Student loan forgiveness won’t rein in tuition costs,” The Hill. June 9, 2022. (https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3517622-student-loan-forgiveness-wont-rein-in-tuition-costs/)

“Lessons from Hollywood’s Digital Transformation,” Harvard Business Review, Idea Center: Taking On Digital Transformation. December 16, 2021. (https://hbr.org/insight-center/taking-on-digital-transformation, https://hbr.org/2021/12/lessons-from-hollywoods-digital-transformation)

“Reform Section 230 to Empower Parents and Protect Children,” Story Partners. September 17, 2021 (with Marshall van Alstyne). (https://storypartnersdc.com/reform-section-230-to-empower-parents-and-protect-children/)

  “It’s Time to Update Section 230,” Harvard Business Review, Digital. August 12, 2021 (with Marshall van Alstyne). (https://hbr.org/2021/08/its-time-to-update-section-230)

“Stop Censoring Fake Reviews,” Harvard Business Review. Idea Watch, December 2020 (with Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan, and Beibei Li).

“Will Movie Theaters Survive When Audiences Can Stream New Releases?,” Harvard Business Review, Digital. January 15, 2021 (with Gordon Burtch, Daegon Cho, and Yangfan Liang). (https://hbr.org/2021/01/will-movie-theaters-survive-when-audiences-can-stream-new-releases)

“The Digital-Piracy Dilemma,” Harvard Business Review, Digital. October 19, 2020 (with Brett Danaher). (https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma)

“Will Schools and Universities Ever Return to Normal? Nine experts on the future of education after the pandemic.” Foreign Policy. September 5, 2020. (https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/05/education-schools-universities-future-after-pandemic/)

“The University is like a CD in the Streaming Age.” The Atlantic online. June 22, 2020. (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/university-like-cd-streaming-age/613291/)

“Why Isn’t Hulu Better?” Harvard Business Review, Digital. April 25, 2020 (with Rahul Telang). (https://hbr.org/2019/04/why-isnt-hulu-better)

“Netflix and the Economics of Bundling.” Harvard Business Review, Digital. February 25, 2019 (with Rahul Telang). (https://hbr.org/2019/02/netflix-and-the-economics-of-bundling)

“Godspeed to AT&T-Time Warner: The $85 billion merger isn’t aimed at dominating cable TV. It’s an attempt to take on Silicon Valley.” Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2018 (with Rahul Telang). Opinion Section, Page A21. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/godspeed-to-at-t-time-warner-1528844403)

“How the DOJ’s Attempt to Block the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Could Backfire.” Fortune Magazine, March 16, 2018 (with Rahul Telang). (http://fortune.com/2018/03/16/att-time-warner-merger-doj-block-attempt/)

   “Data Can Enhance Creative Projects — Just Look at Netflix.” Harvard Business Review, Digital. January 23, 2018 (with Rahul Telang). (https://hbr.org/2018/01/data-can-enhance-creative-projects-just-look-at-netflix)

“Why Digital Media Require A Strategic Rethink.” Harvard Business Review. Idea Watch, October 2012 (with Rahul Telang). (https://hbr.org/2012/10/why-digital-media-require-a-strategic-rethink)

   “Delaying Content Leaves Money on the Table.” Opinion and Editorial Page. The Hill. November 11, 2011 (with Rahul Telang). (http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/196051-delaying-content-leaves-money-on-the-table)

“From Niches to Riches: The Anatomy of the Long Tail.” Sloan Management Review, 47(4 Summer 2006), 67-71 (with Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu “Jeffrey” Hu).

 Smith, Michael D. 2023. What the Online Piracy Data Tells Us About Copyright Policymaking, Hudson Institute Policy Memo, April 2023. (https://www.hudson.org/intellectual-property/what-online-piracy-data-tells-us-about-copyright-policymaking)

  Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang. 2022. The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Era, in Trade in Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Trade and Development in a Transformed Global Economy, Taubman, Watal eds., World Trade Organization, Cambridge University Press.

Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2020. Piracy Landscape Study: Analysis of Existing and Emerging Research Relevant to Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement of Commercial-Scale Piracy. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Economic Working Paper No. 2020-02, April 2020.

Smith, Michael D., Alejandro Zentner. 2016. Internet Effects on Retail Markets, Basker, ed. Handbook on the Economics of Retail and Distribution, Chapter 18 (pp. 433-454), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2594807)

Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2015. Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Economic Evidence and Conclusions. World Intellectual Property Organization, Advisory Committee on Enforcement, Geneva, Switzerland. (http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/enforcement/en/wipo_ace_10/wipo_ace_10_20.pdf)

Danaher, Brett, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2015. Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age: Economics and Methodology, Goldfarb, Greenstein, and Tucker, eds. Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy. Chapter 13 (pp. 385-406), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. (Reprinted in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Economic Research Papers series.) (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2355640)

Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2014. Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms, Lerner and Stern, eds. Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, Chapter 2 (pp. 31-67), National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2273716)

 Garg, Rajiv, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2009. The Role of Peer Influence in Marketing Online Social Networks. International Association of Business Communications, Student Connection, Haris Krijestorac and Manolis Kounelakis, eds, December.

 Clay, Karen, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith. 2001. The Great Experiment: Pricing on the Internet, Lowry, Cherrington, and Watson, eds. Handbook of Electronic Commerce in Business and Society. CRC Press, New York, 139-152.

Smith, Michael, Joseph Bailey, Erik Brynjolfsson. 2000. Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment, Brynjolfsson and Kahin, eds. Understanding the Digital Economy, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 99-136.

Smith, Michael D. 2023. The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (Winner of the 2024 Frandson Award for Literature.)

Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang. 2016. Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (Translated into Simplified and Complex Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Italian language versions.)

Kemerer, Chris F., Michael D. Smith. 2018. Apple v. The FBI. Ivey School of Business Publishing. Case Number 9B18E013, September 10, 2018.

Smith, Michael, Allen Bonde, Gregory Catherine, Rosemarie Napolitano, Diane Wolfe. 1998. “Fuzzy logic-based evidence fusion tool for network analysis,” US Patent Number 5,787,235.

Choi, Patrick, Peter Boatwright, Michael D. Smith. 2015. The Perfect Storm: Using Snowstorms to Analyze the Effect of Theatrical Attendance on the Demand for Subsequently Released DVDs. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2639303)

Cho, Daegon, Michael D. Smith, Alejandro Zentner. 2015. Internet Adoption and the Survival of Print Newspapers: A Country-Level Examination. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2576999)

Sivan, Liron, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2015. Do Search Engines Influence Media Piracy? Evidence from a Randomized Field Study. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2495591)

Danaher, Brett, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang. 2015. The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2612063)

Smith, Michael D., Rahul Telang, Yi Zhang. 2013. Analysis of the Potential Market for Out-of-Print eBooks. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2141422)

Hu, Yu, Michael D. Smith. 2013. The Impact of eBook Distribution on Print Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment. (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1966115)