Showing 1 - 10 of 27
In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the United States between 2004 and 2009. We analyze …-model methods and hedonic price index estimations to adjust for qualitative improvements. In general, we find some evidence of a … quality-adjusted price decline, but the evidence points towards a modest decline at most. Our estimates of the price decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462491
How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and Internet markets evolved over the past half-century? In … many of the same economic terms. In the second section, I closely examine the US commercial Internet experience in the 1990 …s. While the peculiar events that led to the invention of the commercial Internet explain some of the salient and unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025165
In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the United States between 2004 and 2009. We analyze …-model methods and hedonic price index estimations to adjust for qualitative improvements. In general, we find some evidence of a … quality-adjusted price decline, but the evidence points towards a modest decline at most. Our estimates of the price decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332111
The "net neutrality" principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441883
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927037
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471071
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, interconnected using bilaterally negotiated data … there is no visible short run consequence of the GDPR at the internet layer.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858810
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection … negotiating interconnection agreements at the internet layer due to reduced bargaining power of European networks and increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480424
The innovations that became the foundation for the Internet originate from two eras that illustrate two distinct models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462746
surplus, which is not measured via Gross Domestic Product (GDP). An Internet-access Consumer Price Index (CPI) would have to … observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband accounting for $28 billion of this total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463889