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We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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Platforms may give preferential treatment to their own products in search results. Whether and how to regulate this self-preferencing behavior is an intensely debated antitrust issue. This paper identifies self-preferencing and quantifies its equilibrium welfare effects in Apple App Store. I...
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Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing formal...
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Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources …-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled relative to baseline. Areas of the country with higher income, better internet … could improve the effectiveness of education policy responses to the pandemic. The public availability of internet search …
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Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller’s type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns...
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the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …
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We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters' support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …
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era of widespread mobile internet availability. Exploiting exogenous shifts in commuting distance resulting from employer …
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Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...
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