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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...
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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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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 …
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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 …
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Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they …
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an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …
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Using new measures of expanded Internet access in China and internet-based search, we examine how competitive shocks … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … Chinese industry peers to gather knowledge through the internet are followed by reductions in U.S. R&D investment and …
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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...
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value of online activity, both men and women in our sample dramatically increased their internet browsing during the …
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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 …
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