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We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters' support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …
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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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Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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This paper shows that having access to a fast Internet connection is an important determinant of capitalization effects … average property from a high-speed first-generation broadband connection (offering Internet speed up to 8 Mbit/s) would …
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This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...
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for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or …
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How does the internet affect young people’s mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of high-speed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …
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We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
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