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Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2021
This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition, the sharing rules now in place reduce incentives...
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Pricing Capital Under Mandatory Unbundling and Facilities Sharing
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2021
The regulation of telecommunications, railroads, and other network industries has been based on mandatory unbundling and facilities sharing - entrants have the option to lease part or all of incumbents' facilities if and when they desire, at rates determined by regulators. This flexibility is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243961
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Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru
Malamud, Ofer - 2018
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907135
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Ideology and Online News
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2015
aggregate moments from a panel of Internet users. We evaluate the fit of the model to key features of the data and use it to … compute the predictions of the supply model. We discuss how such a model can inform debates about the effects of the Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034676
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Will Ad Blocking Break the Internet?
Shiller, Benjamin - 2017
Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964918
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Net Neutrality, Pricing Instruments and Incentives
Gans, Joshua S. - 2016
We correct and extend the results of Gans (2015) regarding the effects of net neutrality regulation on equilibrium outcomes in settings where a content provider sells its services to consumers for a fee. We examine both pricing and investment effects. We extend the earlier paper's result that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997888
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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from Odesk and India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065211
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The Digital Privacy Paradox : Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk
Athey, Susan - 2017
'Notice and Choice' has been a mainstay of policies designed to safeguard consumer privacy. This paper investigates distortions in consumer behavior when faced with notice and choice which may limit the ability of consumers to safeguard their privacy using field experiment data from the MIT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954461
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Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use : The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
Gallego, Francisco A. - 2017
This paper explores how parental information and control can influence children's internet use in Chile. We designed … (i) specific information about their children's internet use, and/or (ii) encouragement and assistance with the … parental behavior and reduces children's internet use by 6-10 percent. Second, we do not find significant impacts from helping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944628
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Content Aggregation by Platforms : The Case of the News Media
Chiou, Lesley - 2015
The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. Policymakers are concerned that these new platforms threaten incentives for the production of original content. As a result, policymakers are contemplating regulations that would force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018713