How did the diffusion of the Internet affect performance and product quality in the airline industry? We argue that the … growth patterns in Internet access, we find a positive relationship between Internet access and scheduled flight times. The …. We also find that despite longer scheduled flight times, flight delays increased as passengers gained Internet access …

The Internet has drastically altered the nature of competition in the news industry. This article develops a model of … that aggregators, such as Google and Digg.com, allow consumers to search amongst articles and direct consumers towards high …

providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its …A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of …

We analyze the linking and versioning strategies of a media firm when facing competition from blogs, search engines and … competes against a search engine, its linking and versioning strategies depend on the amount of traffic it receives from its … competitor. The firm can use the search engine as its own low quality version and as a mechanism to expand its market since it …

) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality …

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …

The Internet has had profound effects on society, both positive and negative. In this paper we examine the effect of … the Internet on a negative spillover: hate crime. In order to better understand the link, we study the extent to which …, suggesting that the direct effect of the Internet on hate crime is primarily due to a heightening of pre-existing propensities to …

How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to … Internet penetration at the county-year level from 2000 – 2008. We document a positive relationship between Internet … approach that uses lightning strikes to instrument for Internet penetration. Thus, contrary to a commonly held belief that the …

Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the … Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other … also discuss the incentives of duopolists to collude in setting the fees “on the other side” of the Internet while …