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Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Sobbrio, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that … emergence of new political entrepreneurs who used the Internet to convert the initial "exit" back into "voice". Overall, these … nuanced effects underscore the general equilibrium dynamic induced by the Internet. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950872
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950707
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Bias in Cable News: Real Effects and Polarization
Martin, Gregory J.; Yurukoglu, Ali - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We jointly measure the persuasive effects of slanted news and tastes for like-minded news. The key ingredient is using channel positions as exogenous shifters of cable news viewership. Local cable positions affect viewership by cable subscribers. They do not correlate with viewership by local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105922
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764664
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Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry
Ackerberg, Daniel; Gowrisankaran, Gautam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We seek to determine the causes and magnitudes of network externalities for the automated clearinghouse (ACH) electronic payments system. We construct an equilibrium model of customer and bank adoption of ACH. We structurally estimate the parameters of the model using an indirect inference...
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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation
Cicala, Steve - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123620
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What Are We Not Doing When We're Online
Wallsten, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The Internet has radically transformed the way we live our lives. The net changes in consumer surplus and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264928
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Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption
Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made to an investment bank's employees and subsequent usage by these customers. The terrorist attacks of 2001 led potential customers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223325
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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
experiments were important for value creation in Internet access markets. In general, industry-wide returns from economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830574
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Political Economy in a Changing World
Acemoglu, Daron; Sonin, Konstantin; Egorov, Georgy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
groups), show a type of path dependence in politics resulting from radicals coming to power, and identify a novel strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950976