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Technology Adoption in Education : Usage, Spillovers and Student Achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous:...
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Liberation Technology : Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988970
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Was Obama Elected by the Internet? Broadband Diffusion and Voters' Behavior in US Presidential Elections
Larcinese, Valentino; Miner, Luke - 2021
What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …
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Evaluating Market Consolidation in Mobile Communications
Genakos, Christos - 2017
We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators' prices and accounting information across 33 OECD countries between 2002 and 2014, we document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953486
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Chinese Experience with Global 3G Standard-Setting
Whalley, John - 2009
China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the development of an innovation society, and reduced reliance on foreign intellectual property with high license fees. Consistent with this policy, China has been involved in recent years...
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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges : Fixed vs. Mobile Networks
Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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Strategic Complexities in the Combinatorial Clock Auction
Gretschko, Vitali; Knapek, Stephan; Wambach, Achim - 2021
In recent years, regulatory bodies in Europe and around the world implemented Combinatorial Clock Auctions (CCA) to allocate scarce and valuable spectrum frequencies usage rights. Although the auction design is complex, the promise is that bidding becomes simple. More precisely, bidders may bid...
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Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions : Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
Büchel, Konstantin - 2017
Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950281
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Explaining Early Adoption on New Medicines : Regulation, Innovation and Scale
Varol, Nebibe - 2014
Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067984
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Unilateral Climate Policy, Asymmetric Backstop Adoption, and Carbon Leakage in a Two-Region Hotelling Model
van der Werf, Edwin - 2015
We study backstop adoption and carbon dioxide emission paths in a two-region model with unilateral climate policy and non-renewable resource consumption. The regions have an equal endowment of the internationally tradable resource and a backstop technology. We first study the case of a...
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