Although still dominated by standard television, the online TV industry is growing rapidly. Entrants employ a range of business models, and we identify a prevalent tendency for leading providers to aggregate programming from a variety of different content owners. We focus on one form of content...

Empirical research about the effects of vertical integration in cable television suggests that in spite of differences in the economic architectures of cable and Internet broadband, integrated ISPs have economic incentives in some realistic circumstances to favor vertically integrated content...

This review essay introduces the 15 selected papers from the 25th Annual TPRC. We mention major telecom policy highlights of 1997, then offer a light interpretative essay with summaries of the papers. We organize the discussion intofive general sections: Historical, Telephony, The Internet, The...

This paper probes the effect of broadband internet infrastructure on firms’ ESG disclosure. Using a sample of Chinese firms listed during 2011-2020, we find that broadband internet infrastructure exerts significant positive impacts on firms’ ESG disclosure. The above finding still holds...