The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …

This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …

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 …

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …

There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers inestablished industries … Internet lowers prices. This paper answers this questionfor the auto retailing industry. We use direct measures of search … behavior and consumercharacteristics to investigate how the Internet affects negotiated prices. We show that the Internetlowers …