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secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband … and estimate the effect of broadband on student GPA. We show that reaching full coverage in the student's parish of … students living in areas with faster broadband expansion also saw a greater increase in the number of hours spent online during …
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This study investigates the relationship between super-fast broadband and firms' sales and employment level in Sweden …-fast broadband on firm outcomes. We use the previous roll-out of second-generation internet access to identify the effect of third …-generation internet access. The early investments in optic fiber where largely core broadband network investments paving the way for later …
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find that increasing broadband speed by 1 Mbit/s increases test scores by 1.37 percentile ranks in the years 2005 …
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Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both in the US and internationally, and describes...
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The profit-maximizing and oligopoly bank model developed by Bresnahan and Lau allows determining the degree of market power held by an average bank. The equilibrium price equation includes a mark up, which is not used in the case of perfect competition but which is partially used in the case of...
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We compare predictions from a theoretical model based on the structure of the main outdoor retail market in Jerusalem with the results of an empirical analysis of price response to changes in cost. We find that firms without adjacent competition exhibit both upward and downward price rigidity,...
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...
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) on equilibrium prices, allocative efficiency and bidding behavior in a (supply-side) uniform-price multi-unit auction …
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We estimate a structural vector autoregressive model in order to quantify four main explanations for the decline of the US labor income share: (i) rising market power of firms, (ii) falling market power of workers, (iii) higher investmentspecific technology growth, and (iv) the widespread...
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Can an increasing importance of intangible capital explain increases in markups and profits? I use a heterogeneous firm model to show how intangible capital, characterized by fixed costs and uncertainty, is related to markups and profits at the industry level. The scalability and uncertainty...
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