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The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer …
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to study the relationship between fixed and mobile telephony in the United Kingdom and, in particular, address the … question if mobile communications crowded out fixed telephony or if, on the other hand, the two types of communications are in … (2004), and Slade (2004) and we find that at the current diffusion stage, fixed and mobile communications appear to be …
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an ecosystem that is characterized by both momentum and inertia. Applying this framework to study the mobile …
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The two leading online consumer-to-consumer platforms use very different revenue models: eBay.com in the United States uses a brokerage model in which sellers pay eBay on a transaction basis, whereas Taobao.com in China uses an advertising model in which sellers can use basic platform service...
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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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The Internet has drastically altered the nature of competition in the news industry. This article develops a model of …
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