High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …

and to what extent the Internet will affect the location of economic activity. Even after the very substantial … making agglomeration more important. We argue that the Internet will produce more of the same forces for deagglomeration, but …. This is not likely to be affected by the Internet, which allows long distance 'conversations' but not 'handshakes.' …

. The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening? I …

There is a great deal of late bidding on internet second price auctions. We show that this need not result from either …

The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …

Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other … combinations of communication and computing. This concern motivates a study of the geographic spread of the commercial Internet … Service Provider (ISP) market suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper argues that two business models …

Using new measures of expanded Internet access in China and internet-based search, we examine how competitive shocks … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … Chinese industry peers to gather knowledge through the internet are followed by reductions in U.S. R&D investment and …

This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …

observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband accounting for $28 billion of this total … surplus, which is not measured via Gross Domestic Product (GDP). An Internet-access Consumer Price Index (CPI) would have to …