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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...
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Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …
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to competition between ISPs and to competition between contents. We also show that when (competitive) content providers …
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This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …. When regions weigh workers' and capitalists' welfare equally, the core region will set its subsidy low enough that the …
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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...
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Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000–2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...
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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...
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strongly diminished by competition among CPs, and when consumers are not highly sensitive to content availability. We therefore …
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This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show that the ISP's decision on the introduction of discrimination across content depends on a...
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Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local … telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …
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