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How did the diffusion of the Internet affect performance and product quality in the airline industry? We argue that the … growth patterns in Internet access, we find a positive relationship between Internet access and scheduled flight times. The …. We also find that despite longer scheduled flight times, flight delays increased as passengers gained Internet access …
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) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality …
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …
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The Internet has had profound effects on society, both positive and negative. In this paper we examine the effect of … the Internet on a negative spillover: hate crime. In order to better understand the link, we study the extent to which …, suggesting that the direct effect of the Internet on hate crime is primarily due to a heightening of pre-existing propensities to …
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How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to … Internet penetration at the county-year level from 2000 – 2008. We document a positive relationship between Internet … approach that uses lightning strikes to instrument for Internet penetration. Thus, contrary to a commonly held belief that the …
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individuals’ views about suicide as conveyed via the Internet. Furthermore, this paper compared the effects of social capital … Internet for a companion with whom to commit suicide. However, such a relation is not observed between social capital in the … externality of suicidal thoughts conveyed via the Internet. …
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This paper aims at presenting an in-depth review of the new economic relationships associated with the advent of e-commerce in the daily lives of consumers in Bulgaria, which greatly contributes to change and adapt to the modern business environment as well as to the new processes. In the paper...
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This paper proposes that publicly funded arts and cultural organisations should aspire to, and be funded to, engage in Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application. Not confined to novel products or processes, arts and...
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This paper empirically studies the location decisions of internet firms when they face high legal standards of privacy … protection. Many factors might influence them: technological spillovers, lower taxation, and so on. Internet firms can also … consider over-stringent. In the current stage of development of the internet – the so-called Web 2.0 – the ease of access to …
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expressed in USA and is less pronounced in EU. Also rapid technology development and penetration of Internet in everyday life … forced to adapt their products to a new generation that is coming and who grew up in the Internet Age. The biggest changes …
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