This paper studies the effects of aerial cable cars on mode of transport, time use, and employment in the metropolitan area of La Paz, Bolivia. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate local average treatment effects of cable car use for residents who use the system due to proximity...

The wire and cable market has experienced a significant upsurge in demand, driven by its integration with industries such as electronics, telecommunications, infrastructure construction, and electronic equipment manufacturing. This study aims to investigate the linkages between investment...

In corporate sustainability reporting, the credibility of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information is paramount, especially for socially responsible investors relying on ESG metrics. This study proposes an integrated method combining Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Analytic...

This research analyzes on-screen gender diversity among cable news networks in the United States, focusing on the three major networks (CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) from 2010 to 2021. We examine the amount of time women are shown on screen compared to men, the topics women are asked to discuss...

Global digital infrastructures are essential to the growth of economies, businesses, and society. While the provision and management of such infrastructures have traditionally been the focus of telecommunication providers and governmental agencies, the criticality of control and ownership has...

The literature on the political economy of submarine cables is exceedingly scarce and inconsistent. Therefore, this paper aims to address some of the concerns by developing a collection of possible political economy theorisations of the causal mechanisms between the presence and capacity of...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a consultation paper (CP) seeking comments related to the new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable services. The CP seeks comments on issues pertaining to pricing of bouquet and individual TV channels, with a view to ensuring...

Ever since its inception four decades ago, telecommunications fiber optic cables have been one of the best things that happened to Nigeria’s telecommunication industry. With the installations gradually helping Nigeria’s telecom operators to tackle the challenges of poor network...

Advertisement scheduling is a daily essential operational process in the television business. Efficient distribution of viewers among advertisers allows the television network to satisfy contracts and increase ad sale revenues. Ad scheduling is a challenging multi-period, mixed-integer...

We capture economic policy uncertainty from mainstream TV cable networks and link it to market volatility. The novelty of our method is that we can identify who is on TV and when the news is delivered. Our measure is correlated with print-based measures of policy uncertainty at the daily level,...

Demands for high performance electrical power transmission cables continues to rise, especially for offshore power transmission, electric vehicles, portable electronics, and deployable military applications. Carbon nanotube (CNT)-Copper (Cu) core-shell wire is regarded as one of the best...

It is well-known that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has played a key role in giving the EU acquis in the area of intellectual property law the relevance it has today. Especially the series of judgments clarifying the broad notion of “communication to the public” as laid...

In this paper, the study of Single Mode Fiber (SMF) and Bidirectional Fiber cables is done in optical communication system. The source used for the system is (CW) Laser and at the reception PIN diode is used. The distance between the transmitter and the receiver is 10.5 km and 110 km for SMF and...

In recent decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced rapid advances in digitalization, with unprecedented growth in internet penetration. This paper investigates the impact of internet penetration in SSA on real GDP growth, productivity, and sector output and employment. The analysis...

COVID-19 vaccines have already reduced infections and hospitalizations across the globe, yet resistance to vaccination remains strong. This paper investigates the role of cable television news in vaccine skepticism and associated local vaccination rates in the United States. We find that, in the...

This paper examines the introduction of Direct Broadcast Satellites as an alternative to cable television and the welfare gains such satellites generated for consumers. The extent to which satellites compete with cable has become an important issue in the debate over re-regulation of cable...

Patent pools are increasingly well known as a mechanism to license patents essential to a technical standard. CableLabs had early experience when it launched in the mid-1990s the first modern day pool covering MPEG2-essential video codec patents. Recently, the fractured licensing environment for...

Autism is currently estimated to affect approximately one in every 166 children, yet the cause or causes of the condition are not well understood. One of the current theories concerning the condition is that among a set of children vulnerable to developing the condition because of their...

Traditional television screens have lost their monopoly on television content. With a helping hand of digitalization, the introduction of ever more screens in our lives and increasingly faster network technologies, a wide variety of alternative screens and sources of television content are...

An influential theoretical literature supports a discriminatory explanation for product bundling: it reduces consumer heterogeneity, extracting surplus in a manner similar to 2nd-degree price discrimination. This paper tests this theory and quantifies its importance in the cable television...

The cable television industry is a large, integral part of the information technology industry in the United States. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the cable television industry and analyze the institutional and economic determinants of its growth. As will be shown,...

We provide new evidence of vertical foreclosure in the U.S. cable television market, primarily using a 2004 database of 680 cable systems. Focusing on four program network groups (basic outdoor entertainment, basic cartoon, basic movie, and premium movie), we find that more frequent carriage of...

Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) is often considered a substitute for basic cable service, but current cable subscribers may face substantial switching costs to move from cable to DBS services. We use aggregate firm-level price data and other related demographic variables to examine the cost of...

Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality — not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We...

Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality — not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We...

Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality -- not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first...

Power cable engineering is a critical method for urban power supply, and ductbank laying of cables is a way of underground cable lines. Considering the cost and construction, MPP pipes with poor heat dissipation performance are often used in ductbank. Many cables are arranged densely in the...

While the Comcast/TWC merger is significant in size, it doesn’t give rise to any plausible theory of anticompetitive harm under modern antitrust analysis. Comcast and TWC don’t compete directly for subscribers in any relevant market; in terms of concentration and horizontal effects, the...

Partisan cable news broadcasts have a causal effect on the size and composition of budgets in U.S. localities. Utilizing channel positioning as an instrument for viewership, we show that exposure to the conservative Fox News Channel shrinks local government budgets, while liberal MSNBC enlarges...

As the cable system accomplishing 100% digitalization in Taiwan, NCC (National Communications Commission) proposes an unbundled pricing mechanism to allow consumers to choose the cable television channels that they actually watch. This study conducted an online survey and 1358 effective...

This report examines the competitive effects of Hybrid Mobile Network Operators (HMNOs) — mobile virtual network operators that rely in large part on self-deployed facilities — on the market for mobile wireless services and recommends that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broaden...

We measure the welfare distortions from endogenous quality choice in imperfectly competitive markets. For U.S. cable-television markets between 1997-2006, prices are 33% to 74% higher and qualities 23% to 55% higher than socially optimal. Such quality overprovision contradicts classic results in...

This paper studies the effects of areal cable cars on mode of transport, time use and employment in the metropolitan area of La Paz, Bolivia. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate local average treatment effects of cable car use for residents who use the system due to proximity...