Research since the 1980s has considered the economic and innovation impacts of technology standards policies. This paper extends the research on the impact of standardization policies to consider how the policies themselves, governing how the standards are created, determine standards' impact on...

The diffusion of new information technology (IT) requires the development of an ecosystem of hardware and software producers, users, and other firms. It is widely believed that venture capitalists (VCs) can play a role in the development of such ecosystems. However, empirical research to...

This paper explores the benefits associated with the adoption of behavioral targeting (BT) and the advantages derived by its implementation with the paid search (PS) advertising. Using a unique and proprietary dataset on online investments across 20 industries we, first, examine the probability...