Productivity growth had been languishing since the financial crisis in 2008, despite rapid expansion in the use of digital technologies. This may be in part due to the lack of compatible business models to fully exploit the potentials of such technologies in order to drastically impact the...

This paper studies the health impact from internet access on rural elderly’s physical health and cognition. By exploiting the staggered introduction of an internet access project in China and a difference-in-difference strategy, my results consistently show that new access to internet...

Explores the impact of next generation broadband on business creation. Uses over 11 million crowdsourced broadband measurements.Higher broadband speeds are associated with increased growth in new businesses.Universal high-capacity broadband is an economically desirable policy

Broadband connectivity is regarded as generally having a positive macroeconomic impact, but we lack evidence as to how broadband affects key economic activity metrics, such as firm creation, at the local level. This analysis models the impacts of broadband Next Generation Access (NGA) on new...

Conflict and trust have typically been considered if not opposites at least incompatible. However, recent studies have suggested that managing conflict cooperatively can strengthen trust. This paper argues that this research helps us understand and appreciate trust’s critical role and how it...

Using modified analytic embedded atom method and molecular dynamics (MDs) simulation, the self-diffusion dynamics behaviors of Pd adatom on perfect Pd(110) and reconstruction Pd(110)-(1 × 2) surfaces have been studied. Our simulations show the diffusion of Pd adatom is 1D motion along the...