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Two-Sided Platforms and Biases in Technology Adoption
Choi, Jay Pil - 2020
We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure …
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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe
Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea - 2022
We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …
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Fighting Mobile Crime
Crinò, Rosario - 2019
Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back....
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When Nudges Fail to Scale : Field Experimental Evidence from Goal Setting on Mobile Phones
Löschel, Andreas - 2020
Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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Narrowing the 'Digital Divide' : The Role of Complementarities between Fixed and Mobile Data in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services in South Africa using survey data on 134 … access to an internet connection at work or school are more important than reducing mobile data prices by 10% in driving …
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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality is High : The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate …
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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...
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Peer Effects in Product Adoption
Bailey, Michael - 2019
We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users’ cell phone models. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends’ new phone...
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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential causes of this decline. We first highlight 10 pronounced stylized facts related to declining business dynamism...
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