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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 …
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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Several million people currently have accounts in massively multi-player online games, places in cyberspace that are effectively large-scale shared virtual reality environments. The population of these virtual worlds has grown rapidly since their inception in 1996; significantly, each world also...
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A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as eBay, which employ a second price auction … with a fixed deadline. Much less late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as those run by Amazon, which … the different ending rules under controlled conditions, without the other differences between internet auction houses that …
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In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit … second price internet auctions, in which very late bids have a positive probability of not being successfully submitted, and …
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How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …
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In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...
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This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006 …-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During … this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL …
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