This paper analyzes the impact of a variety of socio-economic influences on households' decision to pay for basic Internet access, using a discrete choice framework, and making use of a unique survey of Internet use among American households. Traditional socio-demographic variables are apparent,...

The impact of patent pools on the rate and direction of technological change is an open question in both theoretical and empirical studies. Economic theory makes no unequivocal prediction. By contrast, empirical studies of patent pools, to date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been...

This paper extends the analysis of the relative impacts of socioeconomic factors on households' decision to subscribe to dialup Internet access [Chaudhuri, A., Flamm, K., & Horrigan, J. (2005). An analysis of the determinants of Internet access, presented at the Telecommunications Policy...