Research

See Prof. Brynjolfsson's SSRN page and Google scholar page for additional papers.

Featured Articles

  1. Wajeeha Ahmad, Ananya Sen, Chuck Eesley and Erik Brynjolfsson, “The Role of Advertisers and Platforms in Monetizing Misinformation: Descriptive and Experimental Evidence”, NBER WP 32187, March 2024

  2. Kristina McElheran, J. Frank Li, Erik Brynjolfsson, Zachary Kroff, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, and Nikolas Zolas, “AI adoption in America: Who, what, and where”, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, January 2024

  3. Sagit Bar-Gill, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Nir Hak, “Helping Small Businesses Become More Data-Driven: A Field Experiment on eBay”, Management Science, January 2024

  4. Erik Brynjolfsson, Gabriel Unger, “The Macroeconomics of Artificial Intelligence”, IMF, December 2023

  5. Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, Lindsey Raymond, “Generative AI at Work” NBER WP 31161, April 2023

  6. Brynjolfsson, Erik, “The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence,” Dædalus, Spring 2022.

  7. Erik Brynjolfsson, Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor Bojinov, Sinan Aral, “A causal test of the strength of weak ties,” September 2022.

  8. Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe (2022) “How Many Americans Work Remotely?,” Stanford Digital Economy Lab Working Paper, March 11.

  9. Tambe, P., Hitt, L., Rock, D. & Brynjolfsson, E., (2020), “Digital Capital and Superstar Firms” NBER, DOI 10.3386/w28285.

  10. Brynjolfsson, E., & Mitchell, T. (2017). What can machine learning do? Workforce implications. Science, 358(6370), 1530-1534.

  11. Brynjolfsson, E., Rock, D., & Syverson, C. (2019). Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox. The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, 23.

  12. Brynjolfsson, E., Hui, X., & Liu, M. (2019). Does machine translation affect international trade? Evidence from a large digital platform. Management Science, 65(12), 5449-5460.

  13. Bresnahan, T. F., Brynjolfsson, E., & Hitt, L. M. (2002). Information technology, workplace organization, and the demand for skilled labor: Firm-level evidence. The quarterly journal of economics, 117(1), 339-376.

2023

  1. Martin Neil Baily, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Anton Korinek, “Machines of mind: The case for an AI-powered productivity boom” Brookings, May 2023

  2. Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, Lindsey Raymond, “Generative AI at Work” NBER WP 31161, April 2023

  3. Nestor Maslej, Loredana Fattorini, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Etchemendy, Katrina Ligett, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Helen Ngo, Juan Carlos Niebles, Vanessa Parli, Yoav Shoham, Russell Wald, Jack Clark, and Raymond Perrault, “The AI Index 2023 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 2023

  4. Sagit Bar-Gill, Erik Brynjolfsson & Nir Hak, “Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven: A Field Experiment on eBay” NBER WP 31089, March 2023

  5. Erik Brynjolfsson, Cathy Buffington, Nathan Goldschlag, J. Frank Li, Javier Miranda & Robert Seamans, “The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments” NBER WP 31062, March 2023

2022

  1. Erik Brynjolfsson, Long Chen & Xijie Gao, “Gains from Product Variety: Evidence from a Large Digital Platform” NBER WP 30802, December 2022

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, “The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence,” Dædalus, Spring, 2022.

  3. Erik Brynjolfsson, Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor Bojinov, Sinan Aral, “A causal test of the strength of weak ties,” September 2022.

  4. Daniel Zhang, Nestor Maslej, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Etchemendy, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Helen Ngo, Juan Carlos Niebles, Michael Sellitto, Ellie Sakhaee, Yoav Shoham, Jack Clark, Raymond Perrault, “The AI Index 2022 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 2022

  5. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Liu, Meng, Westerman, George, “Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence?,” April 2022.

  6. Erik Brynjolfsson, John Horton, Christos A. Makridis, Alex Mas, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, and Hong-Yi TuYe (2022) “How Many Americans Work Remotely?,” Stanford Digital Economy Lab Working Paper, March 22.

  7. Benzell, Seth and Brynjolfsson, Erik, “The Innovation-Complexity Trade-off: How Bottlenecks Create Superstars and Constrain Growth,” January 2022.

  8. Benzell, Seth, Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Saint-Jacques, Guillaume, “Digital Abundance Meets Scarce Architects: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth,” January 2022..

2021

  1. Brynjolfsson, E, and Collis, A., and Diewert, W. Erwin and Eggers, F., and Fox, K. J., (September 2021) GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3356697 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3356697.

  2. Brynjolfsson, E., Petropoulos G., (June 2021). “The coming productivity boom” Technology Review.

  3. Brynjolfsson, E., (2021) "The Problem is Wages, Not Jobs", in Redesigning AI , Work, Democracy and Justice in the Age of Automation, MIT Press, Spring.

  4. Brynjolfsson, E., Jin, W., McElheran, K. & Steffenson, S., (April 2021), “The Power of Prediction: Predictive Analytics”, Workplace Complements, and Business Performance. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3849716 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3849716.

  5. Bai, J. J., Brynjolfsson, E., Jin, W., Steffen, S., & Wan, C. (March, 2021). “Digital Resilience: How Work-From-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance”(No. w28588). National Bureau of Economic Research, DOI 10.3386/w28588.

  6. Bana, S., Brynjolfsson, E., Jin, W., Steffen, S. and Wang, X.,(March 16, 2021) “Cybersecurity Hiring in Response to Data Breaches”. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3806060 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3806060

  7. Zhang, D., Mishra, S., Brynjolfsson, E., Etchemendy, J., Ganguli, D., Grosz, B., ... & Perrault, R. (March, 2021). “The ai index 2021 annual report”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.06312.

  8. Brynjolfsson, E., Wang, C., & Zhang, X. (2021). “The economics of IT and digitization: Eight questions for research”. MIS QUARTERLY, 45(1), 473-477.

  9. Liu, M., Brynjolfsson, E., & Dowlatabadi, J. (2021). “Do digital platforms reduce moral hazard? The case of Uber and taxis”. Management Science.

  10. Zolas, N., Kroff, Z., Brynjolfsson, E., McElheran, K., Beede, D. N., Buffington, C., ... & Dinlersoz, E. (Feburary, 2021). “Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by US Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey”, (No. w28290). National Bureau of Economic Research, DOI 10.3386/w28290.

  11. Brynjolfsson, E., Rock, D., & Syverson, C. (January, 2021). “The productivity J-curve: How intangibles complement general purpose technologies” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(1), 333-72, DOI: 10.1257/mac.20180386.

2020

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, John Horton, Adam Ozimek, Daniel Rock, Garima Sharma and Hong Yi Tu Ye (2020) "COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data", NBER working paper, May.

  2. Prasanna Tambe, Lorin Hitt, Daniel Rock & Erik Brynjolfsson, (December 2020) “Digital Capital and Superstar Firms” NBER Working Paper, DOI 10.3386/w28285, Cambridge, MA.

  3. Zolas, N., Kroff, Z., Brynjolfsson, E., McElheran, K., Beede, D., Buffington, C., Goldschlag, N., Foster, L. & Dinlersoz, E., (December 2020) “Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey”, NBER working paper, DOI 10.3386/w28290 Cambridge, MA

  4. Beane, Matt, and Brynjolfsson, Erik (2020 September) “https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/working-with-robots-in-a-post-pandemic-world/ .” Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World

  5. Shan Huang, Sinan Aral, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Erik Brynjolfsson (2020, May) "Social Advertising Effectiveness Across Products: A Large-Scale Field Experiment" Marketing Science. forthcoming.

  6. Das, S., Steffen, S., Clarke, W., Reddy, P., Brynjolfsson, E., & Fleming, M. (2020, February). Learning Occupational Task-Shares Dynamics for the Future of Work. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 36-42).

  7. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Avinash Collis, W. Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers and Kevin J. Fox. "Measuring the Impact of Free Goods on Real Household Consumption." January 10, 2020. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 110 (May 2020). SSRN abstract 3517017. 

  8. Brynjolfsson, E., Rock, D., and Chad, S. (2020, January)  "The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies." American Economic Journal: Macro.

2019

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik (2019) "Congressional Testimony on AI and the Future of Work", U.S. Congress, September 24.

  2. Brynjolfsson, E., Xiang, H. and Meng L. "Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform." Management Science, 65(12): 5449-60. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3388.

  3. Brynjolfsson, E. and Collis, A. "How Should We Measure the Digital Economy?" Harvard Business Review, 97(6): 140-48. doi: 10.1257/aer.20170491

  4. Tambe, P. and Hitt, Lorin, M. and Rock, D. and Brynjolfsson, E., IT, AI and the Growth of Intangible Capital (July 8, 2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3416289.

  5. Brynjolfsson, E., Rock, D., and Prasanna, T. “https://www.hoover.org/research/how-will-machine-learning-transform-labor-market.” May 6, 2019.

  6. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen. "What Drives Differences in Management Practices?" American Economic Review, 109(5): 1648-83. doi: 10.1257/aer.20170491

  7. Frank, Morgan, David Autor, James. E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman et al. "Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(14): 6531-39. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1900949116. April 2, 2019. 

  8. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Avinash Collis, W. Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers and Kevin J. Fox. "GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy." NBER Working Paper No. 25695. Issued March 2019. SSRN abstract 3356697.

  9. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers. "Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(15): 7250-55. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1815663116. March 26, 2019. SSRN abstract 3163559.

  10. Benzell, Seth and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth." NBER Working Paper No. 25585, issued February 2019.

2018

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Meng Liu and George Westerman. "When Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence?" SSRN abstract 3286084, November 16, 2018. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3286084.

  2. Liu, Meng, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi. "Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis." NBER Working Paper No. 25015. Issued September 2018.

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Xiang Hui and Meng Liu. "Artificial intelligence can transform the economy." Op-Ed, The Washington Post, September 18. 2018.

  4. Farronato, Chiara, Andrey Fradkin, Brad Larsen and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing." Working Paper, March 29, 2018.

2017

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Tom Mitchell. "What Can Machine Learning Do? Workforce Implications." Science 358(6370): 1530-1534

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson. "Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics." NBER Working Paper No. 24001 (November, 2017).

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee. "The Business of Artificial Intelligence: What it Can—and Cannot—Do for Your Organization." Harvard Business Review, July 2017.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee. "What's Driving the Machine Learning Explosion?" Harvard Business Review, July 18, 2017.

  5. McAfee, Andrew and Erik Brynjolfsson. Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2017.

  6. Bloom, Nicholas, John Van Reenen, and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Good Management Predicts a Firm's Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills." Harvard Business Review, April 19, 2017.

  7. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and John Van Reenen. "The Importance of Structured Management Practices." MIT Sloan Management Review: Research Update, April 18 2017.

  8. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. (Erik Brynjolfsson and Tom Mitchell, Co-Chairs). Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here? Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/24649

  9. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron S. Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, John Van Reenen. "What Drives Differences in Management?" CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11995; NBER Working Paper No. w23300; IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724. Versions available: NBER Working Paper No. 23300 (March 2017); SSRN abstract (April 2017).

  10. Mitchell, Tom and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Track How Technology Is Changing Work." Nature, 544(7650): 290-291. April 20, 2017. Reproduced in Scientific American as "We Must Track How Technology Is Changing Work."

  11. Aral, Sinan, Yannis Bakos, and Erik Brynjolfsson. Information Technology, Repeated Contracts, and the Number of Suppliers. Management Science. Articles in Advance, 15 Mar 2017. ISSN 0025-1909 (print), ISSN 1526-5501 (online).

  12. Brynjolfsson, Erik. "Technology is changing the way we live, learn and work. How can leaders make sure we all prosper?" World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Jan. 4, 2017. (Blog post)

  13. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Tom M. Mitchell (Co-Chairs). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here? Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/24649

  14. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron S. Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and John Van Reenen. "What Drives Differences in Management?" CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11995; NBER Working Paper No. w23300; IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724. Available at SSRN:Â https://ssrn.com/abstract=2961756 (April 2017).

  15. Brynjolfsson, Erik. (2017) "Technology is changing the way we live, learn and work. How can leaders make sure we all prosper?" World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Jan. 4, 2017. (Blog post)

2016

  1. McAfee, Andrew and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Human Work in the Robotic Future: Policy for the Age of Automation." Foreign Affairs, July/August 2016.

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, “How IoT Changes Decision Making, Security and Public Policy,” MIT Sloan Experts, June 30, 2016.

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Tomer Geva, and Shachar Reichman. (2016). "Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data" MIS Quarterly, 40(4): 941-961.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Kristina McElheran. "The Rapid Adoption of Data-Driven Decision-Making." American Economic Review, 106(5): 133-139.

  5. McAfee, Andrew and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Where Computers Defeat Humans, and Where They Can't." The New York Times, March 16, 2016.

  6. Saunders, Adam and Erik Brynhjolfsson. "Valuing Information Technology Related Intangible Assets." MIS Quarterly, 40(1): 83-110.

  7. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Kristina McElheran. "Data in Action: Data-Driven Decision Making in U.S. Manufacturing." (January 01, 2016). US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper.

2015

  1. Bertsimas, Dimitris, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shachar Reichman, and John Silberholz. (2015). "OR Forum—Tenure Analytics: Models for Predicting Research Impact." Operations Research, 63(6): 1246-1261

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee. "Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?" Foreign Affairs, July/August 2015.

2014

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, McAfee, Andrew, and Spence, Michael, "New World Order: Labor, Capital, and Ideas in the Power Law Economy" Foreign Affairs, July/August 2014.

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Andrew McAfee, and James Manyika, “Will Your Job Disappear?” New Perspectives Quarterly, 31: 74–77. doi:10.1111/npqu.11457

  3. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron S. Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta Eksten, and John Van Reenen. "IT and Management in America." (March 2014). CEPR Discussion Paper.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee. The Second Machine Age: Work Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

  5. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee, “The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The Atlantic, February 14, 2014.

2013

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Milgrom, Paul, "Complementarity in Organizations" in The Handbook for Organization Economics, eds. Robert Gibbons and John Roberts (Princeton University Press, 2013).

  2. Brynjolfsson,  E, Hu, Y J, and Rahman, M. “Competing in the Age of Omnichannel Retailing” MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer, 2013.

  3. Wu, Lynn, and Brynjolfsson, Erik, "The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales" (August 2013)

  4. Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron S. Jarmin, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and John Van Reenen. "Management in America." (January 15, 2013). US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies.

  5. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee. "The Great Decoupling." New Perspectives Quarterly, 30: 61–63. doi:10.1111/npqu.11362

2012

  1. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Jobs, Productivity and the Great Decoupling." The New York Times, December 11, 2012.

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew, "Winning the Race With Ever-Smarter Machines" MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter, 2012.

  3. McAfee, Andrew and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Big Data: The Management Revolution." Harvard Business Review, October 2012.

  4. Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lynn Wu , "Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Human Resource Analytics, and Information Technology"Management Science, (March, 2012).

  5. Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Marshall W. Van Alstyne, "Information, Technology, and Information Worker Productivity" Information Systems Research, (March, 2012).

  6. Brynjolfsson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew, "Thriving in the Automated Economy" The Futurist, March-April 2012.

  7. Tambe, Prasana, Lorin Hitt, and Erik Brynjolfsson "The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation and Productivity" Management Science. (January 2012).

2011

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee. Race Against the Machine. Lexington: Digital Frontier Press, 2011.

  2. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, "The Big Data Boom is the Innovation Story of Our Time" The Atlantic. (November 2011).

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew "Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines" The Atlantic. October, 2011.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew "Why the Massive Wealth of the 1% Could Ruin the Economy" The Atlantic. October, 2011.

  5. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew "Where Human Workers Can Still Beat Robots (at Least for Now)" The Atlantic. October, 2011.

  6. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, and Duncan Simester, "Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sale." Management Science 57 (2011) 1373-1386.

  7. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hitt, Lorin and Kim, Heekyung "Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance " (April, 2011)

2010

  1. Erik Brynjolfsson, Paul Hofmann, John Jordan, Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 32-34 (May 2010).

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, and Michael D. Smith "Research Commentary - Long Tails vs. Superstars: The Effect of Information Technology on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns" Information Systerms Research. (December 2010).

2009

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Astrid A. Dick, and Michael D. Smith “A Nearly Perfect Market? Differentiation vs. Price in Consumer Choice” Quantitative Marketing and Economics, November 2009.

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, and Mohammad Rahman, "Battle of the Retail Channels: How Product Selection and Geography Drive Cross-Channel Competition," Management Science 55(11): 1755-1765.

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Adam Saunders. Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Saunders, Adam "What the GDP Gets Wrong (Why Managers Should Care)" MIT Sloan Management Review, September, 2009.

  5. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Schrage, Michael "The New, Faster Face of Innovation: Thanks to Technology, Change Has Never Been So Easy-or So Cheap" Wall Street Journal and Sloan Management Review (August, 2009)

2008

  1. Simester, Duncan, Hu, Yu (Jeffrey), Brynjolfsson, Erik and Anderson, Eric, "Dynamics of Retail Advertising: Evidence from a Field Experiment" Economic Inquiry, (Forthcoming 2008) [Click here for abstract and Working Paper version]

  2. McAfee, Andrew  and Brynjolfsson, Erik "Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference" Harvard Business Review, (July-August, 2008)

2007

  1. Simester, Duncan, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Eric Anderson, "Dynamics of Retail Advertising: Evidence from a Field Experiment Economic Inquiry, 47: 482-499. (2007)

  2. McAfee, Andrew and Brynjolfsson, Erik "Dog Eat Dog:  Industries that Buy a lot of Technology are Becoming as Cutthroat as Those that Produce Technology"  Wall Street Journal and Sloan Management Review, (April, 2007)

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee, "Beyond Enterprise 2.0" (Interview) MIT Sloan

  4. Management Review, 48(3): 50-55. (Spring 2007).

2006

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hu, Yu Jeffrey and Simester, Duncan, "Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales" MIT Center for Digital Business Working Paper, (December 2006). [Click here for the Working Paper version]

  2. Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne, "Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence", MIT Center for Digital Business Working Paper, October, 2006.

  3. Sinan Aral , Erik Brynjolfsson and D.J. Wu, "Which Came First, IT or Productivity? The Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems", MIT Center for Digital Business Working Paper, October, 2006.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hu, Yu Jeffrey and Smith, Michael D., From Niches to Riches: Anatomy of the Long Tail, MIT Sloan Management Review, (Summer 2006).

  5. McAfee, Andrew, and Erik Brynjolfsson, "Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference" Harvard Business Review, (July-August, 2006).

  6. Brynjolfsson, Erik, “Streamlined distribution and price transparency thru e-commerce” Consulting project, Volt Landscape Lighting.  (May, 2006).  

  7. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Zhang, Xiaoquan "Michael", Innovation Incentives for Information Goods, Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 7, pp. 99-123, 2006.

2005

  1. Van Alstyne, Marshall, and Erik Brynjolfsson "Global Village or Cyberbalkans: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities", Management Science, 51(6): 851-868.

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, "Seven Pillars of Productivity", Optimize, May 2005.

2003

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Michael D. Smith, and Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, (November 2003) "Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers" Management Science, Vol. 49, No. 11 (In Press) [Click here for the Working Paper version]

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Astrid Andrea Dick and Michael D. Smith, (October, 2003) "Search and Product Differentiation at an Internet Shopbot". [Click here for the abstract and Working Paper version]

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, "The IT Productivity Gap", Optimize magazine, July 2003, Issue 21. [Click here for the article]

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin (June 2003) "Computing Productivity: Firm-level Evidence, Review of Economics and Statistics", (In Press) [Click here for the abstract and Working Paper version]

2002

  1. Timothy F. Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lorin M. Hitt (February 2002) "Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence". Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117 pp. 339-376. [Click here for the Working Paper version][Click here for the abstract]

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hitt, Lorin M. and Shinkyu Yang (2002) "Intangible Assets: Computers and Organizational Capital," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Macroeconomics (1): 137-199. [Click here for the Working Paper version]

2001

  1. Michael D. Smith and Erik Brynjolfsson, (December 2001) "Consumer Decision-making at an Internet Shopbot: Brand Still Matters". Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 49, No. 4 pp. 541-558. [Click here for abstract and Working Paper version]

2000

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Lorin M. Hitt, and Shinkyu Yang (December 2000) "Intangible Assets: How the Interaction of Computers and Organizational Structure Affects Stock Market Valuations" MIT Working paper.[Acrobat pdf file 113K]

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin (Fall 2000) Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance, (pdf 201K)Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 23-48.Brynjolfsson, Erik and Kahin, Brian, (October 2000) Understanding the Digital Economy, MIT Press. (Via MIT Press)(Via Amazon)

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Smith, Michael (July 2000) The Great Equalizer? Consumer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots, MIT Working Paper. [Click here for the abstract][Acrobat PDF file 434K]

  4. Smith, Michael.D, Bailey, Joseph, and Brynjolfsson, Erik (2000) Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment, MIT Press, pp. 276-288.

  5. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Smith, Michael (April 2000) Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers, Management Science, Vol. 46, No. 4.[Acrobat PDF file 136K]

  6. Bakos, Yannis and Brynjolfsson, Erik (January 2000) Bundling and Competition on the Internet: Aggregation Strategies for Information Goods, Marketing science, Vol. 19, No. 1 pp. 63-82. [Click here for the abstract] [Acrobat PDF file 200K].

1999

  1. Bakos, Yannis and Brynjolfsson, Erik (December 1999) Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits and Efficiency, Management Science, Vol. 45, No. 12 pp. 1613-1630. [Click here for abstract] [Click here for an HTML version]

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Yang, Shinkyu (Revised: December 1999) "The Intangible Costs and Benefits of Computer Investments: Evidence from the Financial Markets" Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1997.[Acrobat pdf file 123K]

  3. Bakos, Yannis, Brynjolfsson, Erik and Lichtman, Douglas (April 1999) Shared Information Goods, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 42, No. 117.

1998

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin (August 1998) Beyond the Productivity Paradox, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 41, No. 8 pp. 49-55.

1997

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Amy Renshaw and Marshall V. Alstyne (Winter 1997) The Matrix of Change: A Tool for Business Process Reengineering, Sloan Management Review, pp. 37-54. [Click here for information about free software for use with the "Matrix of Change"]

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin(1997) Information Technology and Organizational Design: Evidence from Microdata, MIT Working Paper. [Acrobat pdf file 145K]

  3. Bakos, Yannis and Brynjolfsson, Erik (1997) Organizational Partnerships and the Virtual Corporation, Chapter 4 in Information Technology and Industrial Competitiveness: How Information Technology Shapes Competition, Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Click here for the abstract]

1996

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Kemerer, Chris (December 1996) Network Externalities in Microcomputer Software: An Econometric Analysis of the Spreadsheet Market , Management Science, Vol. 42, No. 12 pp. 1627-2647.

  2. Alstyne, Marshall V and Brynjolfsson, Erik (November 1996) Wider Access and Narrower Focus: Could the Internet Balkanize Science? (14k) Science, Vol. 274, No. 5291 pp. 1479-1480. [ Link to published version. Requires subscription to Science Magazine.]

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik (September 1996) The Contribution of Information Technology to Consumer Welfare, Information Systems Research, Vol. 7, No. 3 pp. 281-300.

  4. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Yang, Shinkyu (1996) (Information Technology and Productivity: A Review of the Literature, (Acrobat file pdf 174 K)Advances in Computers, Academic Press, Vol. 43 pp. 179-214.

  5. Alstyne, Marshall V and Brynjolfsson, Erik (1996) Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkanization? (106 K) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, Awarded "Best Paper on Conference Theme").

  6. Hitt, Lorin and Brynjolfsson, Erik (June 1996) Productivity, Profit and Consumer Welfare: Three Different Measures of Information Technology's Value, MIS Quarterly . (MISQ "Best Paper" Award for 1996. An earlier version appeared as "The Three Faces of IT Value: Theory and Evidence, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, 1994, Vancouver, British Columbia, "Best Paper" award at the conference) MIS Quartery, pp. 121-142.

  7. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin (April 1996) Paradox Lost? Firm-level Evidence on the Returns to Information Systems Spending, Management Science, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 541-558.

1995

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin (1995) Information Technology as a Factor of Production: The Role of Differences Among Firms, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 3, No. 4, (Special Issue on Information Technology and Productivity Paradox) pp. 183-200.

  2. Alstyne, Marshall V and Brynjolfsson, Erik (1995) Communications Networks and the Rise of an Information Elite -- Do Computers Help the Rich get Richer? Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Amsterdam. [Acrobat PDF file 183K]

  3. Bakos, Yannis and Brynjolfsson, Erik Aggregation and Disaggregation of Information Goods: Implications for Bundling, Site Licensing and Micropayment Systems," in Proceedings of Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property. [Click here for the abstract] [Click here for an HTML version]

1994

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik (1994) Information Assets, Technology, and Organization, Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 12. (Note: the working paper version of this paper was called "An Incomplete Contracts Theory of Information, Technology, and Organization".) (A Japanese translation can be found here.)

  2. Brynjolfsson, Erik, Thomas Malone, Vijay Gurbaxani, and Ajit Kambil (1994) Does Information Technology Lead to Smaller Firms?, Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 12 pp. 1645-1662.

  3. Brynjolfsson, Erik (December 1993) The Productivity Paradox of Information Technology, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 12 pp. 67-77. (Translated to Japanese and reprinted in Prevision, June, 1994 issue.) (Translated to Dutch and reprinted in Management and Organization of Automation, fall 1994)

1993

  1. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Mendelson, Haim (December 1993) Information Systems and the Organization of Modern Enterprise. Journal of Organizational Computing. Vol. 3, pp. 245-255.

  2. Bakos, Yannis. and Brynjolfsson, Erik (December 1993) From Vendors to Partners: Information Technology and Incomplete Contracts in Buyer-Supplier Relationships. Journal of Organizational Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 301-328.