interests groups have on legislators' policy positions. In so doing, we exploit the Internet service blackout of January 2012 as … of property rights on the Internet. Using a newly compiled dataset of U.S. congressmen's public statements, which capture …

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …

This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address … endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hindered the roll-out of fixed-line infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find negative effects of Internet …

for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or …

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

the use of the internet per se that matters but the specific use of social networks for political activity. …

broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …

broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …

broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households …

broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households …