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The Effects Of Competition On The Price For Cable Modem Internet Access

Chen, Yongmin; Savage, Scott J. - NET Institute - 2007

An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices. While the standard view is that competition … access, with or without competition from a digital subscriber line provider, and using education dispersion as a proxy for …, competition reduces prices. As education dispersion increases, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; and when …

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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2004

carriers), and we point to the real danger that the intent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition in …

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The Effects of International Simple Resale on Prices in International Telecommunications Markets

Pearcy, Jason; Savage, Scott J. - NET Institute - 2009

This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simple resale (ISR) authorization on the prices for international message telephone service (IMTS). We compile a firm-level panel data set for over 200 United States-foreign country bilateral markets from 1995 to 2004. These data...

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Stuck in the Adoption Funnel: The Effect of Delays in the Adoption Process on Ultimate Adoption

Lambrecht, Anja; Seim, Katja; Tucker, Catherine - NET Institute - 2007

Online applications and services automate communications and transactions between firms and consumers, promising large efficiency gains. However, consumers have been slow to use these online technologies intensively, despite widespread adoption of the internet. Customers frequently undergo a...

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Usage and Diffusion of Cellular Telephony, 1998-2004

Grajek, Michal; Kretschmer, Tobias - NET Institute - 2006

In this paper, we study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. We address two specific questions: First, does information about usage intensity over time allow us to draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion?...

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Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure

Huang, Ke-Wei; Sundararajan, Arun - NET Institute - 2006

We develop and analyze a model of pricing for digital products with discontinuous supply functions. This characterizes a number of information technology-based products and services for which variable increases in demand are fulfilled by the addition of "blocks" of computing or network...

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Diffusion and use of financial telecommunication: An empirical analysis of SWIFT adoption

Zachariadis, Markos - NET Institute - 2011

The purpose of the current work is to investigate how country-level and region-specific characteristics influence the adoption of a major financial telecommunication innovation and standard (SWIFT) in the banking sector. Using annual data on the diffusion and usage intensity of SWIFT between...

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