, particularly, concerning the level of trust in the payment methods and the level of Internet experience. …

avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …

The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on … the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a …

Several studies have examined the market value of paid-for internet services and internet access. This paper estimates … time spent online and opportunity cost of time, to an internet users' clickstream dataset for the five largest economies in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …

We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …