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 …. Yet, previous empirical work has generally found that the introduction of incentive regulation has not systematically …

We consider a network that intermediates traffic between free content providers and consumers. While consumers do not …. We study how pricing consumers' and content providers' sides allows both profit extraction from the network and efficient …

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 … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …

single market in the European Union is impeded by absent or imperfect regulation conducted at the national level, which fails …

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … introduction of discrimination across content depends on a potential trade-off between network access fee and the revenue from the … network can be smaller than that under a neutral regime where such rent extraction effects do not exist. Contrary to ISPs …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use is associated with a … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the …