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....

Sharp declines in semiconductor prices are largely responsible for observed declines in computer prices. Although communications equipment also has a large semiconductor content, communications equipment prices do not fall nearly as fast as computer prices. This paper partly resolves the puzzle...

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...

Telecommunications services in the US are not federally micro-managed. Internet service provision has enjoyed a high degree of freedom at the federal, state, and local levels until now, and this is likely to persist in the near future. Confusion about the existence, extent, and direction of a...

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,...