This study examines the effects of media market structure on consumer demand and welfare. A differentiated-product model is used to estimate demand for the local media environment, described by the offerings from newspapers, radio, television, the Internet and Smartphone. Results show that the...

This paper studies how the political influence of consumer groups and firms affects the behavior of state regulators and in turn the effectiveness of federal policies. We employ a unique granular data set for U.S. local telephone markets to examine empirically differences in state and intrastate...

The impacts of the Lifeline subsidy on high-speed Internet access, prices and welfare are evaluated. Counterfactuals from a differentiated-product model of competition between cable and telephone firms show the $9.25 subsidy is a positive incentive but the share of low-income households in the...