: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that increases in the number of telephone lines per capita lead to a … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …

: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that increases in the number of telephone lines per capita lead to a … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …

government regulatory policies on the international telephone markets. When carriers in each country are required to act … exchanged telephone traffic with the U.S. between 1992 and 2004, we test the effects of bilateral market structures and the U …

international telephone markets. Under the requirement of uniform settlement rates, the proportional return rule (PRR) inflates the …

19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across …. Placebo estimations show that exogenous Internet availability cannot explain numeracy or literacy skills, suggesting that our …

induced variation in broadband Internet availability that gives rise to variation in ICT skills across countries and German …

The Federal Communications Commission has requested comments on the regulation of voice telephone services delivered … over the Internet, dubbed "VoIP" or Voice over Internet Protocol. This paper examines whether there is a need to regulate … continuing to regulate local telephone services …