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The value of the internet for consumers
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2014
the value of leisure time spent online for which the consumer pays no monetary price and which has become increasingly … important as a leisure activity. We apply a methodology developed be Goolsbee and Klenow (2006), which relies on differences in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979940
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
Allcott, Hunt - 2019
The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. We present a randomized evaluation of the welfare effects of Facebook, focusing on US users in the run-up to the 2018 midterm...
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Has the digital divide been reversed? Evidence from five EU countries
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2013
(leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire … effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on human capital and goods & services websites …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055311
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Has the digital divide been reversed? : evidence from five EU countries
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2013
use for specific purposes (leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset … websites. Tertiary education has a negative effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979468
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Does the Internet make people happier ?
Pénard, Thierry; Poussing, Nicolas; Suire, Raphaël - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2011
As people are spending more time online, it is important to evaluate the impact of Internet use on individual well-being. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns (e.g. better job, higher productivity) that may increase life satisfaction. But the Internet might also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283640
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Does the Internet Make People Happier?
Pénard, Thierry; Poussing, Nicolas; Suire, Raphaël - 2014
As people are spending more time online, it is important to evaluate the impact of Internet use on individual well-being. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns (e.g. better job, higher productivity) that may increase life satisfaction. But the Internet might also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178179
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The Value of the Internet for Consumers
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2014
the value of leisure time spent online for which the consumer pays no monetary price and which has become increasingly … important as a leisure activity. We apply a methodology developed by Goolsbee and Klenow (2006), which relies on differences in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144976
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The Characteristics and Value-Added Contributions of Private Investors to Entrepreneurial Software Ventures
Freear, John; Sohl, Jeffrey - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 6 (2001) 1, pp. 84-103
The nature and role of early stage equity financing in the development of emerging entrepreneurial ventures in the software industry is examined. To provide an understanding of the relationship between the suppliers of capital and the ventures they bankroll, issues concerning equity positions...
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More than Words: A global analysis of the socio-economic impact of Rich Interaction Applications (RIAs)
Arnold, René; Hildebrandt, Christian; Tas, Serpil; … - 2017
Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732761
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The connectivity frontier
Prats, Joan; Páez, Juan Andrés - 2018
The importance of connectivity is growing across the world as the need for access to information and communication technologies is becoming more important for economic development. This paper presents the concept of the connectivity frontier as the expected achievable level of commercially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141921