What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption, and labor-market outcomes in developing countries Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using...

Mobile phones have become the main communication tool and helped countless people to improve their lives in many countries. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past 30 years from 11 million subscriptions in 1990 to 8.6 billion in 2021.1 Ninety-five percent of the world's...

This cross-sectional study empirically evaluated a model designed to predict the varied elements influencing the behavioral intents of financial institutions towards the use of mobile peer-to-peer platforms. Combining behavioral and instrument elements from frameworks based on the Net Valence...

I exploit variation over time and space in the arrival of 3G Internet in South Africa to estimate its impact on political participation, electoral competition, voters’ preferences and protests. Combining granular coverage data with administrative records on municipal elections, I show that in...

I use the gradual arrival of submarine Internet cables on the coast and the route of the backbone cables network to demonstrate how high-speed Internet (fixed and mobile jointly considered) has an impact on political mobilization in Africa. I obtained robust difference-in-differences estimates...

Das vorliegende Gutachten untersucht die Wettbewerbsverhältnisse auf dem deutschen Mobilfunkmarkt. Auf der Grundlage einer umfassenden empirischen Untersuchung kommt das Gutachten zu dem Ergebnis, dass sowohl auf dem Endkunden- als auch auf dem Vorleistungsmarkt im Bereich des öffentlichen...