The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer …

Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other …We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the …

Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other …We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the …

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of …

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet … with the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …

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 …

) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality …

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …

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 …

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 …