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The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive … internet giants are multisided markets (MSM); their economic rents are "hidden" from the public. On the user-side of the market … rents are not so obvious. This paper addresses the monopolistic/monopsony aspect of the internet giants. In the singlesided …
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There is a general acceptance of the fact that a significant direct relationship between financial markets and macroeconomic variables exists, especially by considering the assertion that developed financial markets correspond to high GDP levels. This paper provides an investigation of the...
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This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth across thirty sectors of the French production system during the period 1978- 2015. It shows that there exists an optimal level of competition for each sector that is defined by...
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. The hypothesis is confirmed: an increasing fraction of internet traffic volume expected at high levels of aggregation (i ….e. an internet exchange) is unexplained by existing service category growth. …
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Using quarterly data of 58 countries, this paper provides empirical evidence that mobile phone diffusion from 2007 to 2009 is positively influenced by international network effects. Direct and indirect network effects are a result of the international standadization of telecommunication...
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We consider internet service providers' incentives to zero-rate, i.e. do not count towards data allowances, the …
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Many developing countries have introduced sector-specific taxes on the consumption of mobile services, which apply on top of general taxes, and therefore discourage the positive externalities that have been estimated to be associated with the use of mobile technology on workers' productivity and...
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internet access infrastructure and where a virtual operator provides services through third-party access. We show that the …
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economics to explore the 4th industrial revolution including Internet of the things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI …
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telecommunication services composed of telephony, Internet and paid TV. We conduct a stated preference discrete choice experiment on a … that fixed telephony has already become an obsolete service. Out of the three fixed services, Internet generates the … biggest value for customers, driving up valuations of bundles. WTP for Internet is much higher than actually paid prices …
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