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Net Neutrality and Internet Fragmentation : The Role of Online Advertising
D'Annunzio, Anna - 2015
We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017710
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Unbundling the Incumbent and Entry Into Fiber : Evidence From France
Bourreau, Marc - 2018
We use panel data on 36,104 municipalities in metropolitan France over the period 2010-2014 to estimate two models of entry into local markets by: (i) alternative operators using wholesale access to the legacy copper network via local loop unbundling (LLU), and (ii) the incumbent and two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916532
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Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives
Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 2021
This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP's investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316480
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Cross-Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy
López, Ángel L. - 2017
This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with overlapping ownership. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968865
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Asymmetric Innovation Agreements Under Environmental Regulation
Aoyama, Naoto - 2018
In a domestic market, a duopoly produces a homogeneous final good, pollution, pollution abatement and R&D. One of the firms (foreign) has superior technology. The government regulates the duopoly by levying a pollution tax to maximize domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928255
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Infrastructure Investment in Network Industries : The Role of Incentive Regulation and Regulatory Independence
Égert, Balázs - 2009
This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate …-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in over investment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment … changed investment in network industries. According to the theoretical literature, regulatory uncertainty exposes both types …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160048
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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Czernich, Nina - 2012
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116573
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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919054
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Returns to ICT Skills
Falck, Oliver - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997356
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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - CESifo - 2009
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572478