This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online … distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations. …

,596 online display (banner) advertising campaigns to explore how privacy regulation in the European Union has influenced … advertising effectiveness. This privacy regulation restricted advertisers' ability to collect data on web users in order to target …

We examine whether the growth of the internet has reduced the effectiveness of government regulation of advertising …. Specifically, we combine variation in state and local regulation of offline alcohol advertising with data from field tests that …

firms that offer a larger scope of services. Therefore, though privacy regulation imposes costs on all firms, it is small … goods where the price mechanism does not mediate the effect, such as the advertising-supported internet …

We examine the geography of early stage entrepreneurial finance in the context of an internet marketplace for funding … limited reputations. At the same time, however, observers of the spatial effects of the internet and related technologies … report that many economic activities have become much less geographically dependent. At an aggregate level, the internet …