Does the internet increase competition? To address this question, I exploit two institutional details unique to Germany …

This paper examines the digital divide in internet use in general and whether there may be digital divides in internet … which covers the entire clickstream of almost 20,000 internet users in the five largest EU economies during 2011. Our main … finding is that, conditional on internet adoption, the digital divide in internet use has been reversed. Low-income internet …

offer an increasingly large part of a "full internet experience". With this in mind, our analysis places their economic … impact between baseline telecommunications services' and the internet' impact. For a 10% increase in RIAs usage GDP for the …

on the effects of broadband Internet on the housing market in order to quantify the value of broadband access in terms of …. Chapter 5 investigates the effects of a mobile Internet infrastructure upgrade on the take-up of location-based online … Internet infrastructure increases the number of restaurant reviews and the share of reviews written on smartphones. …

The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …