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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 … broadband availability affects racial hatecrimes in the US from 1999 – 2008. To address measurement error, we instrument for …
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the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet …
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While some broadband providers have called Internet content and application providers free riders on their … infrastructure, this is incorrect and misguided. End-users pay for their residential broadband providers for access to the Internet … broadband providers’ ISPs in order to reach their customers. This feature of the Internet has been one key factor that has …
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This paper responds to arguments made in filings in the FCC’s broadband openness proceeding (GN Dkt. 09-191) and … limited competition in the broadband access marketplace. Contrary to some others’ arguments, wireless broadband access … services are unlikely to act as effective economic substitutes for wireline broadband access services (whether offered by …
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This paper deals with competition in communications markets between an incumbent and an entrant. We analyze the effect of bundling strategy by a firm who enters an incumbent market. This market dimension has profound implications on the sustainability of collusion in an infinitely repeated game...
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Internet presumably reduces search cost driving price to the competitive level. Evidence from empirical research … impact of internet on price dispersion using contemporaneous online and offline transaction data for airline ticket prices …
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line and cable modem. In this article, we estimate the impact on broadband access to the Internet of the structural … elasticities of demand and the marginal costs of broadband access to the Internet. Based on these estimates, we simulate the e …In Portugal, the telecommunications incumbent o®ers broadband access to the Inter- net, both through digital subscriber …
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Recommender systems are becoming integral to how consumers discover media. The value that recommenders offer is personalization: in environments with many product choices, recommenders personalize the browsing and consumption experience to each userÕs taste. Popular applications include product...
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Some policymakers argue that consumers need legal protection of their privacy before they adopt interactive technologies. Others contend that privacy regulations impose costs that deter adoption. We contribute to this growing debate by quantifying the effect of state privacy regulation on the...
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Many technology studies have conceptualized transitions between technological generations as a series of S-curve performance improvements over time. Surprisingly, the interregnum between successive technological generations has received little attention. To understand what happens in the...
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