"This paper reviews the progress made in the literature toward defining and measuring the affordability of utilities. It highlights the relative merits of alternate affordability metrics; the practical challenges to their operationalization, including the underlying data requirements; and their...

Abstract This paper uses both a discrete choice demand model and a direct survey method to derive robust measures of the contribution of home broadband to consumer welfare during the early years of broadband adoption by U.S. households. We estimate a demand system that distinguishes between...

The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is inclusive. In a sample of more than 26,000 manufacturing establishments across 71 countries (both OECD and developing), the authors find that...