We extend Bresnahan and Reiss’s (1991) model of local oligopoly to allow firm entry and exit over time.In our framework, entrants have to incur sunk costs in order to enter a market. After becomingincumbents, they disregard these entry costs in deciding whether to continue operating or to...

A unique data set on home use of computers and the Internet is used to investigate the tradeoffsbetween physically commuting to a work site and telecommuting from home via computers. Thestudy further investigates whether individuals who work from home receive greatercompensation relative to...

Many countries claim foreign cultural goods threaten their national identities and engage inprotectionism against foreign cultural goods with various policy interventions. We analyze theeconomics of domestic cultural content protection in terrestrial broadcasting, the mostwidespread policy...

Die Bedeutung der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien(IKT) alsWachstumsbeschleunigerin vielen anderen Branchen istweiter gestiegen.Vordringliche Aufgabe des Staates ist es, die Rahmenbedingungenfür erfolgreicheswirtschaftlichesHandeln zu schaffen. Dann können sowohl dieIKT-Wirtschaft...

Allen öffentlichen Förderprogrammen zur Verbesse -rung der Breitbandversorgung liegt das Prinzip zuGrunde, dort zu fördern, wo ausreichende Markt -lösungen für den jeweiligen Bedarf bei den gegebenenwirtschaftlichen, infrastrukturellen und topographischenGegebenheiten auch unter...

This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...

This paper analyses the economic potential of TV-cable and powerline networks as internet-access media. Futhermore it discusses the prospects for the communications market.