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Cloze Encounters: The Impact of Pirated Data Access on LLM Performance

(Working Paper with Stella Jia)

Type: Working Paper, Year: 2024, Cat: Science, Cat: TheoryAbhishek NagarajFebruary 26, 2025AI, innovation

Theorizing with Large Language Models

(Working Paper with Cecil-Francis Brenninkmeijer, Arul Murugan and Matteo Tranchero)

Type: Working Paper, Year: 2024, Cat: Science, Cat: TheoryAbhishek NagarajSeptember 24, 2024AI, innovation

Geographic Bias in Management Scholarship: Data-Driven Estimates and Trends

(Ongoing project, with Randol Yao)

Year: 2023, Cat: Science, Type: Working PaperScienceSitesJune 24, 2024geographic bias, science of science, management research

Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

(with Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Krieger)

Year: 2024, Type: Published ArticleScienceSitesMay 1, 2024AI, Strategy

A Mapping Lens for Estimating Data Value

Published, Harvard Data Science Review, 2024

Cat: Theory, Type: Published Article, Year: 2024Abhishek NagarajApril 17, 2024maps, data

The Economics of Augmented and Virtual Reality

(Ongoing project, with Joshua Gans)

Cat: Theory, Year: 2023ScienceSitesAugust 28, 2023augmented reality, virtual reality, metaverse

Getting on the Map: The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance

(Working paper, with Michael Luca and Gauri Subramani)

Cat: Firms, Cat: Digitization, Type: Working Paper, Year: 2022ScienceSitesNovember 18, 2022online platforms, digital mapping, small business, entrepreneurship

How Does Data Access Shape Science? Evidence from the Impact of U.S. Census’s Research Data Centers on Economics Research

(Working paper, with Matteo Tranchero)

Cat: Science, Type: Working Paper, Year: 2022ScienceSitesNovember 18, 2022data access, scientific productivity, Federal Statistical Research Data Centers, economics of science

The Streetlight Effect in Data-Driven Exploration

(Working paper, with Matteo Tranchero, Gustavo Manso, and Johannes Hoelzemann)

Type: Working Paper, Year: 2022, Cat: TheoryScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022data, innovation, exploration and exploitation, streetlight effect, social learning

Cutting Through the (Digital) Clutter: Technological Change and Careers of Men and Women in Cultural Markets

(Working paper, with Aruna Ranganathan)
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Type: Working Paper, Year: 2022, Cat: Communities, Cat: DigitizationScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022digitization, recording technology, production of music, gender, culture, demographic diversity, gender inequality, labor markets

Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project

(Working paper, with Imke Reimers) [conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Policy]
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Type: Working Paper, Year: 2021, Cat: Digitization, Cat: FirmsScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022digitization, Google Books, book sales, discovery, search, books

Socioeconomic Network Heterogeneity and Pandemic Policy Response

(Working paper, with Mohammad Akbarpour, Cody Cook, Aude Marzuoli, Simon Mongey, Matteo Saccarola, Pietro Tebaldi, Shoshana Vasserman, and Hanbin Yang)
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Type: Working Paper, Cat: FirmsScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022heterogeneous-agents network-based model, FRED, COVID-19 Research Database, Occupational Information Network, Occupation Employment Statistics, American Community Survey, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, COVID-19, mobility, infection, employment

How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps

(Working paper, with Henning Piezunka)

Type: Working Paper, Cat: CommunitiesScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022open source platform, OpenStreetMaps, Google Maps, competition, contributors, open source ideology, crowdsourcing, community

Social Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Management Science, May 2021 (with Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz, and Sameer Srivastava)
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Year: 2021, Type: Published Article, Cat: FirmsScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022organizational discretion, cell phone location data, social learning, COVID-19, instrumental variables, community establishments, chain establishments

The Private Impact of Public Data

Management Science, 2021

Year: 2021, Type: Published Article, Cat: FirmsScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022microeconomic behavior, mining industry, public information, satellite mapping, maps, entrepreneurship

Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap

Management Science, 2021

Year: 2021, Type: Published Article, Cat: CommunitiesScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022online communities, knowledge production, crowdsourcing, innovation, digitization, OpenStreetMap, maps, open source platform

Improving Data Access Democratizes and Diversifies Science

Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, September 2020 (with Esther Shears and Mathijs de Vaan)
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Type: Published Article, Year: 2020, Cat: ScienceScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022data access, satellite mapping, maps, citations, scientific research, diversity, inequality

The Economics of Maps

Journal of Economic Perspectives, February 2020 (with Scott Stern)
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Type: Published Article, Year: 2020, Cat: Digitization, Cat: TheoryScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022maps, mapmaking, intellectual property, mapping industry, map data, map design

Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from Google Books and Wikipedia

Management Science, July 2018

Type: Published Article, Year: 2018, Cat: Communities, Cat: DigitizationScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022intellectual property, copyright, digitization, economics of innovation, Wikipedia, Google Books, crowdsourcing, knowledge production, online communities

Do Wiki-Pages Have Parents? An Article-Level Inquiry Into Wikipedia’s Inequalities

Workshop on Information Technology Systems (WITS), 2009 (with Priya Seetharaman, Rahul Roy, and Amitava Dutta)

Type: Published Article, Year: 2009, Cat: CommunitiesScienceSitesOctober 26, 2022Wikipedia, inequality, parenting, knowledge management, corporate wikis

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