The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …

We assess the impact of internet connectivity and digital trade policies on trade and welfare. Using a bilateral … measure of internet connectivity, we find a significant positive relationship between the internet and both domestic and … that digital trade determinants play different roles for goods and services: the internet is beneficial for goods trade but …

implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction …This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the … platforms, and social networks. Given the high level of market concentration and the development of competition over time, we …