We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017 using administrative data on electoral outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 82,094 municipalities of twenty European countries, which we complement with individual survey data on voters’...

This paper studies the economic value of mobile applications (apps) and their effect on firms, particularly highlighting how these apps, by giving access to customer data, enhance firm-specific information environment. Constructing a unique measure of app value using novel data on all mobile...

This article examines the effect of access obligation on mobile network investment. Access obligation is a form of regulated network access in wholesale markets that commits MNOs to grant non-discriminatory access to MVNOs. While it is often claimed that such regulation might lower investment...

This paper investigates impact of digital development on labor mobility decisions across Chinese industries using data from the China Family Panel Studies (2014-2018) and China’s Input-Output Table data. Our findings reveal a significant crowding-out effect of industry digitalization...

In this paper, we use the framework of dynamical systems theory to introduce a new theoretical model that captures the behavior of radio signals over hyper-space time. We focus on modeling the operation of concurrent radio services or operators as dynamical systems that transform radio signals...

This study assesses the factors that impacts on an individual’s adoption (ADOP) of mobile payment services (MPS) in the setting of a developing small island developing state (SIDS), Mauritius. A theoretical model is derived from prior research and combines factors from technology acceptance...

The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a careeroriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported...