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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316480
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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 … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017710
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Pricing Internet Traffic : Exclusion, Signalling and Screening
Jullien, Bruno - 2014
We consider a network that intermediates traffic between free content providers and consumers. While consumers do not know the traffic cost when deciding on consumption, a content provider knows his cost but may not control the consumption. We study how pricing consumers' and content providers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055385
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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136878
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Genes, Economics, and Happiness
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2014
We explore the influence of genetic variation on subjective well-being by employing a twin design and genetic association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction is explained by genetic variation. Although previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070290
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Foreign Language Learning : An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor A. - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048885
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Identifying the Effects of Place-Based Policies - Causal Evidence from Germany
Dettmann, Eva - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988971
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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877676
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Genes, Economics, and Happiness
Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Fowler, … - CESifo - 2010
We explore the influence of genetic variation on subjective well-being by employing a twin design and genetic association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction is explained by genetic variation. Although previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534020
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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671696