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and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …
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Internet auctions attract numerous agents, but only a few become active bidders. A major difficulty in the structural … analysis of internet auctions is that the number of potential bidders is unknown. Under the independent private value paradigm …
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This paper provides evidence on the migration from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, taking into account the impact that regulatory interventions on the old one might have on the incentives to invest and adopt the new one. This analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27...
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The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within multinational groups leads to a rising number of intragroup cross-border transactions. At the same time, transactions and the organisational structures of affiliated groups become more and more specific and, thus, less...
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Despite the mixed empirical evidence, many economists stillhold to the view that Internet will promote competition …
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We investigate the valuation of platform investment, such as asoftware operating system or anInternet portal WebPage. Platform investment is the creation of aninnovative distribution andproduction infrastructure, which increases access to customers; as aresult it reduces entry costs inrelated...
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heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …
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the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … on criminal offences and broadband internet measured at the municipality level to shed light on the question. In order to … address endogeneity in broadband internet availability, I follow Falck et al. (2014) and exploit technical peculiarities at …
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. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …
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We analyze a market where firms compete in a conventional and an electronicretail channel. Consumers easily compare prices online, but some incur purchaseuncertainties on the online channel. We investigate the market shares of the two retailchannels and the prices that are charged. We find that...
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