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 … leads each newspaper to specialize in terms of news coverage. In this case, its presence changes quality choices from … strategic substitutes to strategic complements. In the case of symmetric newspapers, this leads to an increase in the quality of …

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 …

this paper, we look at how the existence of contracts between firms and intermediaries affects the quality of the advice … received by consumers, and firms' incentives to invest in improving the quality of their products. We consider a model with one … distorts firms' incentives to invest. Quality can then decrease or increase compared to an objective benchmark. We contrast our …

quality, where a journal's quality determined by the quality of the papers it publishes. We provide a simple model of journal … quality. As an illustration of the value of the model, we use it to address issues that have arisen in the recent debate … concerning whether, in the Internet age, journals should become \open access" (freely available to readers, financed by author …

The aim of this research is to analyze whether and when ratings are informative signals about the quality of movies … the quality using ratings as signals. The signal produced by one rating is very noisy and might not be taken into account …. The ratings data of Netflix is used to fit a structural Bayesian learning model. This model links revealed experience …

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 …

The Internet has drastically altered the nature of competition in the news industry. This article develops a model of … price and quality competition between firms in the online news industry. In equilibrium, firms randomise in their pricing … quality articles. The model's results have implications for the ongoing public debate about the effects of aggregators on the …