This paper documents the rise of the Internet as a source of state-tax-free cigarettes and its impact on taxed sales … merged with data on Internet penetration, the paper documents that there has been a substantial increase in the sensitivity … of taxable cigarette sales to state tax rates that is correlated with the rise of Internet usage within states. The …

welfare gains highly uncertain. We show that for time-intensive goods like the Internet, a simple model in which both … use and the opportunity cost of people's time (i.e., the wage). The theory predicts that higher wage internet subscribers …. Based on expenditure and time use data and our elasticity estimate, we calculate that consumer surplus from the Internet may …

taxes would have had on broadband Internet access at an early stage of its diffusion around the country, combining data on …

Internet and communications investment in schools starting in 1998. The program subsidized spending by 20-90 percent, depending … Internet investment. The implied first-dollar price elasticity of demand for Internet investment is between -0.9 and -2.2 and … about 66 percent more Internet classrooms than there would have been without the subsidy. Using a variety of test score …

Despite the interest in measuring price sensitivity of online consumers, most academic work on Internet commerce is … rise of Internet sales. The estimates suggest that prices online are much more variable than the CPI, which understates …

The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … comparisons online. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact that the rise of Internet comparison shopping sites has … group using the Internet reduces average insurance prices for the group by as much as 5 percent. Further evidence indicates …

The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …

The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … comparisons online. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact that the rise of Internet comparison shopping sites has … group using the Internet reduces average insurance prices for the group by as much as 5 percent. Further evidence indicates …

Current tax law makes it difficult to enforce sales taxes on most Internet commerce and has generated considerable … are benefits to nurturing the Internet but they tend to diminish over time. When tax costs and benefits take this form, a …

Current tax law--and the current technical architecture of the Internet--make it difficult to enforce sales taxes on … most Internet commerce. This has generated considerable policy debate. In this paper, we analyze the costs and benefits of …, compliance costs are also likely to be low as Internet infrastructure evolves to make enforcement easier, and states coordinate …