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This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...
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diagnosis more than doubles them. Internet ratings of repair shops are a good predictor of prices. However, the predictive …
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We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...
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percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …
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This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …
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This paper shows that having access to a fast Internet connection is an important determinant of capitalization effects … average property from a high-speed first-generation broadband connection (offering Internet speed up to 8 Mbit/s) would …
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The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other … internet creates policing challenges, leading to the abuse of established rules and standards. In the context of academia, this … otherwise). Using unique internet search indices of the policies and resources, we find that the two are positively associated …
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