A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … disparity across countries – the global “digital divide.” Previous work has focused on demographic,economic, and infrastructure …

)regulate telecommunications provision …

There is general concern that producer subsidies distort competition. We examine a telecommunications subsidy system …

We model mixed-bundle pricing by internet service providers (ISPs) to study their incentive to steer consumers across … model. We find that the ISP’s introduction of internet usage allowances and overage charges steered internet-only consumers … to conventional TV. Internet usage growth - especially in streaming video services - was curtailed for consumers who …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … contributing to the global digital divide. We find evidence indicating that income, human capital, the youth dependency ratio …

provision of internet access. The goal of this paper is to estimate the effect of public competition on private investment, and … to evaluate the resulting consequences for welfare.I estimate a model of demand for internet technologies using … nationwide U.S. data, and combine these results with a dynamic oligopoly model of private and public internet service providers …

under duopoly if consumer preferences for the two products are more diverse. Focusing on the price for cable modem Internet …

In Portugal, the telecommunications incumbent offers broadband access to the Internet, both through digital subscriber … 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 effect …