This paper examines how individuals create and derive value from the internet, utilizing new data to provide previously unknown insights. The paper looks at several aspects of value that include: online expenditure, consumer surplus, user well-being, and online income. In doing so, IA more...

How do you build the next Silicon Valley? This paper offers an empirical examination of the factors that help foster internet firms and employment. It builds off literature examining factors related to the economic potential of places. We examine the internet industry using the identification...

The report investigates the impacts of short-term rental services (STRs), such as Airbnb, Homeaway, etc., on the residential housing market and hotel/accommodation market in the city of Seattle, Washington. Our primary goal is to examine critiques against STRs to assess their empirical validity...

Consumers, competition, investment, capacity, and innovation. Behind all the noise surrounding net neutrality (NN), the debate boils down to these issues, each surrounded almost exclusively by theoretics (Haas, 2007). The present report attempts to address this gap by injecting data and...

The internet has long since evolved into a rich and diverse ecosystem of new platforms, businesses, and resources that have fundamentally changed the way in which markets function. In many ways, it has been the great economic equalizer, enabling low-cost entry and exit to firms, instant...

The ability of cities to thrive as centres of human habitation, production and cultural development, despite the challenges posed by climate change, population growth and globalisation, is determined by their resilience. From a real estate investor's perspective, resilience allows cities to...

The report investigates the impacts of short-term rental services (STRs), such as Airbnb, Homeaway, etc., on the residential housing market and hotel/accommodation market in the city of Seattle, Washington. Our primary goal is to examine critiques against STRs to assess their empirical validity...

The paper investigates the broadening area of research utilizing micro-geographic economic analysis to conduct evaluations of area-based policies implemented at a micro-geographic level. It offers the first extensive, critical examination and synthesis of this subset of work including its...

Examining The Economic Contributions Of The Cloud To The United States Economy estimates the size of the U.S. cloud economy for 2017. According to the estimates: The cloud added approximately $214 billion in value-added to U.S. GDP in 2017. The cloud added approximately 2.15 million jobs in...

The paper conducts a comprehensive review and critical comparison of the empirical methodologies for defining the high-technology sector (or ‘tech') in social science research and analysis. It consolidates both qualitative (expert-based) approaches and quantitative (threshold-based) approaches...