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GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps
Janßen, Rebecca; Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of … about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half. We estimate a …
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Building and Delivering the Virtual World : Commercializing Services for Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane - 2000
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …
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The Online Laboratory : Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
Horton, John J. - 2010
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials. We argue that online experiments can be just as valid - both internally and...
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Online Auctions
Ockenfels, Axel - 2006
The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
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Universal Service in the Digital Age : The Commercialization and Geography of U.S. Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane - 1998
Service Provider (ISP) market suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper argues that two business models … presently vie to diffuse commercially-oriented Internet-access across the US. One business model emphasizes a standardized …Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other …
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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AI, Trade and Creative Destruction : A First Look
Trefler, Daniel; Sun, Ruiqi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
can be tracked resides in the palm of our hands: the Mobile Apps used by half the world's population. To analyze the … impact of AI on international trade in mobile App services we merge 2014-2020 data on international downloads of mobile Apps … will have a comparative advantage producing AI-intensive Apps. We show the following IV results. (1) Bilateral Trade: AI …
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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model
Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
your hand: From London to Lagos, mobile app users trigger international transactions when they open AI-powered foreign apps …. We have 2015-2020 usage data for the most popular 35,575 mobile apps and, to quantify the AI deployed in each of these … apps, we use a large language model (LLM) to link each app to each of the app developer's AI patents. (This linkage of …
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Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Model of Technology Adoption : P2P Digital Payments
Alvarez, Fernando; Argente, David; Lippi, Francesco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper develops a dynamic model of technology adoption featuring strategic complementarities: the benefits of usage increase with the number of adopters. We study the diffusion of new means of payments, where such complementarities are pervasive. We show that complementarities give rise to...
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