Does mobile broadband subscription rates have a positive effect on closing the earnings gap? Examining United States county level data, higher rates of mobile broadband subscription lead to reductions in the earnings gini coefficient. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in mobile...

Product bundling may benefit or harm consumers depending on the correlation between consumer willingness to pay for the bundled goods and the levels of market dominance of firms. We develop a structural demand model that allows for correlated consumer's willingness to pay and flexible...

Digitalization is accelerating as countries fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the impact of mobile phone ownership on welfare (represented by consumption) is estimated for South Africa using rich household survey data in a panel format, the National Income Dynamics Study...

Innovative financial technologies are becoming a pathway to inclusive economic participation for individuals and firms. This paper presents evidence on how individuals' decisions to adopt such technology, particularly mobile money, relate to the adoption choices of their network of family and...

The Ethiopian telecommunication market has been expanding slowly due to supply side constraints. However, these days, government has already announced to open market to the private operators and in this environment, the upcoming mobile telecommunication market, where 4 G service was already...

Globalization has facilitated productivity gains and economic growth and for decades. It has helped integrate emerging economies, spread technology, knowledge, culture, and created an interconnected global community. Smart cities depend on a robust and flexible mobile network foundation, and...

Although mobile phone subscription rates in Nigeria have grown significantly since its inception in the early 2000s, over half of the population remains unconnected. As the focus of governments and mobile carriers shift to driving Internet adoption, mobile phones serving as a facilitating...

The mobile app economy comprises two distinct platform markets through which app developers make revenue: app platform and ad platform markets. App sales are facilitated by app platforms, whereas advertising matching is intermediated by ad platforms. Cross-market platform competition exists,...

This paper analyses the response to the COVID-19 pandemic of inbound tourism to Italy looking at variation across countries and across provinces. To this end, it uses weekly data on the number of foreign visitors in Italy from January 2019 until February 2021, as provided by a primary mobile...

An important gap in the literatures on global value chains (GVCs) and bottom-of-the-pyramid markets concerns how GVCs develop to serve frontier markets and what role multinational and local firms play in that process. This paper takes a first step in filling this gap by studying the evolution of...