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Demanding Customers : Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care
Fang, Hai - 2010
the Internet and direct-to-patient advertising. Consumerism has been hailed as a means of improving quality. This need not …
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The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection
Zhuo, Ran - 2019
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, interconnected using bilaterally negotiated data … there is no visible short run consequence of the GDPR at the internet layer.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working …
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Learning When to Quit : An Empirical Model of Experimentation
Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2018
paper unpacks the idea selection process using a unique dataset from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a voluntary … organization that develops protocols for managing Internet infrastructure. For a large sample of IETF proposals, we observe a …
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in Dns Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books
Ellison, Glenn - 2018
This paper examines the effect of the Internet on markets in which match-quality is important, including an analysis of … structural estimation of a model based on the theory. The estimates suggest that the shift to Internet sales substantially …
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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018
We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
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Spinning the Web : The Impact of ICT on Trade in Intermediates and Technology Diffusion
Juhász, Réka - 2018
This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) improvements affect trade along the value chain and international technology diffusion. We examine the impact of a revolutionary technology, the roll-out of the global telegraph network, on the 19th century cotton textile...
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Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?
Goodman, Joshua - 2016
Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing...
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The Competitive Effects of Online Education
Deming, David - 2016
We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...
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Accounting for Growth in the Age of the Internet : The Importance of Output-Saving Technical Change
Hulten, Charles R. - 2017
information goods available over the Internet, which bypass GDP and go directly to the consumer. It also leads to the concept of …
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