A primer on internet economics: macro and micro impact of the internet on the economy

Business Economics, Oct, 1999 by Albert E. DePrince, Jr., William F. Ford

2 CMGI Inc., PSINet Inc., CheckFree Holding Corp., Sterling Commerce Inc., Mainspring Enterprise Inc., IDT Corp., AXNET Technologies Inc., Open Market Inc., Broadvision Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., CENT Inc., America Online Inc., Earthlink Network Inc., Excite@Home Corp., Network Solutions Inc., Usweb Corp., Versign Inc., Doubleclick Inc., Exodus Communications Inc., Verio Inc., Inktomi Corp., Infospace.com, Inc., Abovenet Communications Inc.

3 Source: Goldman Sachs Equity Derivative Research

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The Internet Indicators. Center for Research in Electronic Commerce. University of Texas, 1999, (www.internetindicators.com), cited in text as CREC.

"The Internet: Changing Businesses' Approach to Business," EconSouth, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, First Quarter 1999.

The Second Annual Ernst & Young Internet Shopping Study, Ernst & Young LLP, 1999.

Greenspan, Alan, Commencement Address, Harvard University, Cambridge. MA, June 10, 1999a.

-----. Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress, June 14, 1999b.

Reinbach, Andrew, "Internet Auto Sites Attract Big Money," Future Banker, July 1999.

Useem, Jerry, "For Sales On Line: You," Fortune, July 5, 1999.

Wenninger, John, June 1999, "Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce," Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Volume 5, Number 10.

Albert E. DePrince, Jr. is Director, Business and Economic Research Center and William F. Ford is Chairholder, Weatherford Chair of Finance, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. Dr. Ford also is an Associate Editor of this Journal.