telecommunications with Internet and broadcasting services. The criteria used by the regulatory authorities to identify those network …

heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the … unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of a new mass medium on criminal activity in Germany. The paper asks … the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … on criminal offences and broadband internet measured at the municipality level to shed light on the question. In order to …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German … refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany from 2001 to 2003, when roughly 60 percent of the German firms already … used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the …