Debate over U.S. broadband policy has largely shifted away from mere availability, toward the degree of competition among service providers, and effects on price and quality, in distinct regional markets. By far the largest sustained effort to increase broadband provision in the United States...

This paper investigates the effects of changes in market structure on residential service quality in local U.S. broadband markets. Our analysis focuses on identifying causal effects on quality from entry (or exit) by firms using both legacy and non-legacy broadband network technologies.We...

The terms of the debate over U.S. broadband policy have shifted dramatically over the last decade. Residents in almost all areas of the United States now are able to subscribe to some form of high speed (“broadband”) internet service, though at widely varying prices and service qualities....

The availability and quality of broadband service in the United States has been elevated as a salient policy issue by the migration of both households and firms to online activities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper investigates the effects of entry by non-incumbent broadband...

Broadband, or high-speed access to the Internet, has generated significant economic benefits. Certain regulations, however, are slowing investment and deterring entry into the broadband market. In this statement, we make two recommendations that would remedy these regulatory defects and thereby...

Was a massive, federally subsidized expansion in demand for residential broadband use for education and work during the Covid-19 pandemic in the US accompanied by significant changes in price and quality for broadband services purchased by urban households in the U.S.? We study this question by...

This paper constructs a framework for modeling the determinants of broad band availability in the United States, and applies it to a zip code-level database of economic, demographic, geophysical, and policy variables constructed by the author. Statistically significant state effects exist,...