This paper studies a "market creating" firm (platform) that offers a matching environment by charging an access fee to …

data from a growing online platform that matches travelers and hosts to study matching and transaction costs on online … platforms. I show that the matching probability for guests has increased by 18% over a span of two years on the platform. I then … over time: a decrease in the transaction costs required to book. I show that the time to book and the amount 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 …

The Internet has drastically altered the nature of competition in the news industry. This article develops a model of …

A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …

in computer and Internet penetration have been performed. The main conclusions and policy implications from these studies … an alternative approach to bridging the digital divide, through organizational innovations that provide low cost Internet …, to examine factors influencing patterns of computer and Internet use. These individuals were in situations where computer …